Clarion 1980-05-09 Vol 55 No 24

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the Clarion Vol. 55, No. 24 Bethel College St. Paul, MN May 9, 1980
Briggs, Anderson counsel homosexuals
The new women's state champion in the discus is Bethel's Sara
Barker. More information on page 8.
by Jan Johnson
In 1948, Alfred Kinsey released
his findings of a survey of sexual
behavior among American males
and reported that four percent of
all adult males "considered them-selves
to be exclusively homo-sexual."
Further statistics showed
that one to two percent of all adult
females in America consider
themselves to be also.
"The educator must realize that
Christian men and women are no
less prone to homosexual tempta-tion
and personal struggle than
any other person, and that to ig-nore
church members' concerns in
this area is tantamount to ignoring
reality," wrote David Anderson,
assistant professor of psychology,
in a recent article.
Both Anderson and Doug
Briggs, assistant professor in thea-tre
arts, spent time counseling in-dividuals
struggling with homo-sexuality
when they aren't work-ing
at Bethel. Anderson has a gen-eral
counseling practice in which
he sometimes gets clients looking
for help with their homosexual
practice.
"There are two groups of
homosexuals," says Anderson.
"Group One consists of people
actively involved in 'gay' rela-tionships.
Group Two members
are more secretive. They are strug-gling
for sexual identity. They
may have had homosexual fanta-sies
or dreams, but are not yet rea-dy
to admit that they actually are
`gay.' They may not even want to,
but they are having self doubts.
That's the group I have contact
with.
Anderson works on the premise
that what can be learned can be
unlearned, and sexual preferences
are learned.
"It takes a lot of discipline,
group support, and it helps to
have a faith in God," Anderson
explained. As a Christian, he be-lieves
that homosexuality is
wrong.
"In my view, it's a sin. But it's
too simplistic to just leave it at
that. It's typically symptomatic of
other concerns in the person's life,
and it needs to go through a pro-cess
of healing."
Anderson views each individual
as body, soul, and spirit. First he
asks, "Does he have a faith?" If
he does, Anderson tries to streng-then
it. The next step is to go back
into the individual's earlier life to
try and find what may have pre-disposed
the person to have
homosexual tendencies.
Finally, the counselor, through
various techniques, attempts to
get the individual to disassociate
homosexual ideas with feelings of
pleasure.
Like Anderson, Doug Briggs
also views homosexuality as a sin.
"The only real hope is through
the power of Christ," Briggs said.
Briggs works as a layman-coun-selor
through an independent
ministry known as Outpost. Out-post
shares a building and a tele-phone
number with Lovelines,
employs two fulitime staff work -
ers and five or six volunteers, and
works exclusively with homosex-uals.
Briggs got involved in this min-istry
about a year-and-a-half ago.
His wife was taking a course in
minorities here at Bethel and a
guest speaker, himself an ex-gay,
brought up the problem of the
lack of opportunities for Chris-tians
struggling with homosexual
tendencies to get help.
Having worked in theatre in
California before coming to Be-thel,
Briggs had come across
"gays" before and so he felt that
he could offer more than just a
"shoulder to cry on." He looked
into it and discovered Outpost.
"Homosexuality is just a sin,
and like any other sin it must be
dealt with," said Briggs. "All we
ask is that the individual coming
for help view it as a sin also."
He has worked with everything
from those who just think that
they might be gay, to hustlers, to
sado-masochists...from teens to
people in their 40's and 50's...
from singles to marrieds...even
students.
Both Briggs and Anderson
agree that homosexuality is a
problem that Christians must
learn to face, not "sweep under
the carpet."
Dr. Walter Wessel (Photo
Tom Twining).
by Carol Madison
After extensive recruiting ef-forts,
which included an interview
in Cairo, Egypt, four new fulltime
faculty members have been hired
to fill vacancies in the Bible
department.
These replacements will fill
positions left open by Dr. John
Piper, who is taking a pastorate at
Bethlehem Baptist, and David
Baker, who plans to continue
theological training in Vancouver.
Dr. Wayne Grudem will be on
sabbatical for the fall semester,
and Dr. Walter Wessel, chairman
of the department, will take a sab-batical
for the entire year.
"The recruiting effort has been
the most concerted effort ever in
the history of this department,"
said Wessel. "Dean Brushaber
and I have made extensive trips,
and Dr. Art Lewis interviewed one
replacement in Cairo, on his way
home from Israel."
Those joining the department in
Old Testament studies are Sheryl
Meltzer and Carl G. Rassmussen.
Meltzer is presently completing
her doctorate in semetics at the
University of Toronto, and once
served as an instructor at Evangel
College in Springfield, Missouri.
She has spent the past year in
Egypt while her husband has been
completing work on his doctorate
in Egyptology from the University
of Toronto.
Carl Rassmussen, who will also
teach Old Testament studies and
Hebrew, is presently the Dean of
the Institute of Holy Land Studies
in Jerusalem. He is a candidate
for a doctorate at Dropsie College
in Philadelphia. Rassmussen is
considered an authority on the
historical geography of the Holy
Land, and he has spent seven
years in Israel and conducted field
trips to various parts of the coun-try.
The New Testament studies will
receive Dr. Vernon Olson as an
addition to that department.
Dr. Olson is a graduate of
Bethel College and Seminary, and
has been a conference pastor for
eight years. He has been teaching
for the past 12 years at St. Paul
Bible College. Olsen will join the
faculty as professor of New Testa-ment.
David Murchie, the final new
faculty member, is a candidate for
a doctorate at Drew University,
and will teach history of Christian
doctrine, as well as theology.
Murchie is also an accomplished
concert violinist and played six
years with the Denver Symphony
orchestra.
"This is the first time in the
history of Bethel that we have had
three fulltime professors in the
Old Testament department," said
Wessel. "This will offer a much
greater variety of courses.
"We are still searching for
another faculty replacement in
New Testament," he added.
New Bible profs fill vacancies
letters
School structure creates barriers
the Clarion Vol. 55, No. 24 Bethel College May 9, 1980
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editorial
Corn. board needs
commitment, no-bias
The communications board, the student committee which governs the
Clarion, the Roster, Passages and KABY has functioned poorly in the
past year, passing hastily-considered recommendations on to the stu-dent
senate and being inordinately concerned with handing out money
and privileges to KABY.
At the root of the problem was the difficulty Sue Stone, chairman of
the board, had in filling vacant seats on the board. For most meetings, a
voting quorum was not present.
The only two members of the board who attended with any consisten-cy
were both employed by KABY. Though the com. board constitution
prohibits stipended employees of the media from serving on the board,
these two earned their money through work-study funding, technically
avoiding the anti-conflict of interest stipulation.
As a result, com. board meetings were often dominated by interests of
the radio station. For example, when it was suggested that the proba-tionary
status of KABY be removed, there was no discussion of pros,
cons or potential ramifications of the station's permanent status. When
KABY requested over $800 for a new transmitter, no one analyzed the
cost vs. the benefits, or the long range goals of the campus radio station.
Stone said she often felt frustrated for the lack of involvement of
those on the board. Members should be committed not only to a one-hour,
bi-weekly meeting, but also to research for their policy decisions.
This past year the com. board was responsible for $40,000 of student
association fees—four-fifths of the entire student association budget.
Responsibility such as this demands careful attention by the student
body.
To protect the integrity of the board, the wording of the constitution
should be changed to exclude all employees of the media as voting
members, regardless of method of payment; the individuals of the board
need to shoulder more responsibility for the decisions they make; and
the student senate needs to actively recruit committee members.
New chairman of the board, Caryl Brown, recently extended applica-tion
deadline to Monday, May 12. Underclassmen are encouraged to ap-ply—
they have been sorely under-represented of late. The respon-sibilities
of board work are great, but they usually are when the work is
important.
Response to survey
starts change process
Dear Editor,
When I entered Bethel four
years ago, I stepped into a world
of challenges as every incoming
freshman does. One of these chal-lenges
happened to be the physical
barriers around school. I wish to
identify the problem of physical
barriers, not for my benefit exclu-sively,
but for those persons who
may wish to attend Bethel but are
unable to because of the stair-ways.
Like most high school
graduates, I wanted to get away
from home and become more in-dependent.
Having this goal of in-dependence
before me, I did not
let stairways bother me. That
year, however, I realized that
climbing stairs did take away from
my independence to a degree.
Every time I climb stairs, I need a
friend to carry my walker up the
staircase.
I do use the elevator when it is
convenient, however, at times it is
very inconvenient because of its
location. I feel there is a need for
an additional elevator built in the
new science building—it would be
more accessible for elevator use.
There is also a problem outside
of the school building. Steps lead-ing
up to the building may dis-courage
any handicapped person
that is looking at the school for
the first time. All of the building
entrances have steps except a cou-ple
which are hidden from public
view.
In 1973, the Rehabilitation Act
passed a law requiring federally
funded colleges and universities to
create barrier-free buildings. Al-though
Bethel is not under federal
funding, I think we need to be
concerned about the physical bar-riers
that may prevent some in-dividual
from coming.
Inside the building, Bethel also
has barriers that may discourage
future, prospective students. For
example, there is a staircase lead-ing
up to the psychology depart-ment.
There is no other alternative
but to climb these stairs which I
must do in order to reach my class
three times a week. If I were a
psychology major, I sure would
obtain my daily exercise.
Also, a handicapped person, as
any other individual, should have
the freedom to get counseling as-sistance
from the psychologists
(not that they need extra counsel-ing
but should have the freedom
to obtain it).
Maybe the psychology depart-ment
could be moved to the third
or second floor and replaced by
administrative offices where stu-dents
are less likely to go for in-formation.
Another barrier is the drinking
fountains. These are not very ac-cessible
to a person who is in a
wheelchair. As a solution, Bethel
could put in paper cup dispensers
at a reasonable level for a sitting
person at each of the drinking
fountains.
There are similar problems with
phones. Phones are too high for a
person sitting in a wheel chair to
reach. Touchtone phones (for
those who find dials impossible to
manage) could be placed at a
lower level that could be reached
by a sitting person. This may cost
more but I think it would be worth
it to free a person from extra
limitations.
As I understand, a new science
building is planned to be added
soon. In this building, one could
include an elevator, some outside
ramps that are visible to the pub-lic,
and lower laboratory tables.
If new dorms are built in the fu-ture,
I think they should have ac-cessibk
entrances as well as
facilities built inside for the handi-capped.
There are only a couple of
places where a handicapped per-son
could live on the campus with-out
climbing some stairs.
In Science magazine,
December, 1976, it is pointed out
that facilities should be accessible
to the handicapped without segre-gating
them from the rest of the
student population.
For example, ramps should be
available at all entrances, if pos-sible.
The handicapped students
should not be segregated from the
other students in a separate hous-ing
complex.
As the article suggests, dial
phones could be replaced by touch
phones, and door knobs could be
replaced with levers to make open-ing
doors an easier task for some
people.
The article also pointed out that
handicapped students should not
have segregated provisions be-cause
this would take away their
individual choices. Furthermore,
a student who had to go to a spe-cial
place to obtain necessary
facilities may feel a lot of indig-nity.
I bring up this concern of physi-cal
barriers not because I have si-lently
fought the structure of this
school (I haven't), but I see these
physical barriers as a possible fac-tor
in deciding whether to attend
Bethel.
In creating awareness of this
concern, I hope some action will
be taken in order to give another
person with a physical limitation
the same great opportunity for
education that I have enjoyed at
Bethel.
Sincerely,
Julie Redenbaugh
Dear Student Body:
We, as your representatives,
would wholeheartedly like to
thank each one of you who re-sponded
to the student survey. In
this initial survey, we sought to
ask questions which we felt cov-ered
the concerns common to
most students.
The senate realizes many other
questions could be asked, but due
to time and space, they were left
out of the survey.
With your input, the student
senate will now start the process
of bringing about the changes that
you as a student body have com-municated
to us. Where the
change is not possible, informa-tion
will be provided to the stu-dent
body as to the action that was
taken.
Please feel free to interact
with senate on any issues that con-cern
you. The senate needs your
help to better the student environ-ment
at Bethel.
In His Service,
Bethel Student Senate
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letters
Mollenkott arguments unsound, authority given to males
Dear Editor,
Virginia Mollenkott said in
chapel that the Greek word posta-tis
in Romans 16:2 has the mean-ing
of "ruler," so that Phobe was
regarded by Paul as "the ruler of
many, even myself." Her defense
was that everywhere else this word
is used in the New Testament it
has this meaning. When I heard
this interpretation I was hard put
to imagine what the Apostle of
Christ could mean by calling any
one in the church his ruler.
So I checked out the concor-dance
and found that prostatis
does not occur anywhere else in
the New Testament (or O.T.). In
fact, I can find no usage of this
feminine noun in any other early
Christian or Jewish writing. But
from its use in pagan sources the
meaning seems to be "patroness."
We may surmise that Phoebe was,
therefore, a woman of some
means who perhaps protected and
supported Paul and others in
some ways. It is highly improbable
that she was a "ruler" over Paul.
Second, Mollenkott argued that
Junias in Romans 16:7 is a femin-ine
noun and that therefore a
woman could be an apostle since
Paul says of Adronicus and Junias
that they were "of note among the
apostles." This is possible since
Junias is a common feminine
name.
But it is not as certain as Mol-lenkott
implied because Junias
may be a shortened form of the
masculine Junianus. An analogy
in the N.T. would be the shor-tened
form Silas (Acts 15:22) from
Silvanus (2 Cor 1:19). The gram-mars
of Robertson and Blass-De-brunner
give many other exam-ples.
The upshot is that Andron-icus
and Junias might have been
husband and wife—apostles in the
broad sense of itinerant evangel-ists.
But they might be two men as
well. The evidence is inconclusive.
Third, Mollenkott and most
other Christian feminists stress
from Ephesians 5:21 that the
Christian ideal is mutual submis-sion.
There are two problems with
this.
One is that the Greek word for
submit (hupotassomai) seems only
to mean "submit to an
authority." In other words to ar-gue
that the word here means
"put another's interest ahead of
your own" would contradict nor-mal
usage. But when Paul says,
"Be subject to one another," do
not these last three words imply
reciprocity? They might. But there
is no grammatical necessity that
they imply this. One need only
consult the same phrase in Rev 6:4
to see that in the Greek idiom
"one another" (allelois) need only
mean that, in a group, various
people are doing something to
other people. One-for-one recip-rocity
cannot be inferred from the
phrase.
The other difficulty with the
feminist interpretation of mutual
submission is that even if Paul did
mean that in each relationship of
two people there should be reci-procal
submission, this by no
means eliminates God ordained
authority structures which, limit ,
the way some individuals should
be subject to others.
For example, it may be that par-ents
should submit themselves to
their children in the sense of put-ting
the child's interest first. But
this does not contradict or elimin-ate
the fact that children should
manifest their submission differ-ently
from the parents, namely in
obedience. This does not jeopar-dize
the mutuality of their servant-hood.
Rather it defines the form
that mutual servanthood should
take within the natural order of
creation - the family.
Similarly the feminist would be
unjustified in assuming that the
forms of submission which hus-band
and wife offer each other
should be identical. My own con-viction
is that Paul assigns a role
of authority to the husband which
he does not assign to the wife.
This is the point of Eph 5:22-33;
Col 3:18, 19; and I Pt 3:1-7. This
need not contradict mutual sub-mission,
because the husband is to
exercise his leadership for the sake
Lifestyle: the watchword at Be-thel.
What exactly is it? Why is it
that way? What is the student's
part in enforcement? Steve
Lovestrand analyzes these ques-tions
in a four-part series.
by Steve Lovestrand
second in a series
I've heard somebody criticize
Bethel's lifestyle this way: Sup-pose
we were to drop the lifestyle
policy during the school year—
how would the behavior of Bethel
people change between then and
the end of the year?
If, you say, it would change a
lot, then what's the point of hav-ing
a lifestyle that has no lasting
effect? Of if, you say, their behav-ior
really wouldn't change signifi-cantly,
then why have a lifestyle
that we don't seem to need?
Don't get excited—nobody's
going to experiment with the idea
any time soon. But the question is
worth considering: Why have a
. lifestyle, policy? More specifically,
of his wife and children, not for
his own self-exaltation.
Therefore, even if (which seems
unlikely) Paul commends here a
reciprocal submission, this does
not eliminate authority structures
at home and in the church and so
cannot be used as an argument
against the happy and mutually
fulfilling rhythm of male leader-ship
and female responsiveness.
Fourth, when Paul prohibits
women from holding an authori-tative
teaching office in the church
(I Timothy 2:12) most feminists
argue that this is not valid today
because it was based on a tempor-ary
ecclesiastical or cultural situa-tion.
But this is not Paul's basis.
He argues from the creation in
Genesis two and from the dyna-mics
of the Fall in Genesis three.
From those who still hold to the
truth of Paul's practical teaching I
have never heard a satisfactory ex-planation
of this fact.
And it should perhaps be stress-ed
here that Paul never argues for
female submission on the basis of
the curse of Gen. 3:16. When he
why does Bethel have this particu-lar
policy? Is it just a matter of
keeping up the traditions of Bethel
and the BGC? Is it to help insure
that we remain insulated, or even
isolated from the behavior and at-titudes
of the world? A way to
make people with problems hide
them? Maybe somebody was
bored one day, and made them
up. Or is the lifestyle policy a han-dy
measuring tape or scale to see
how good a Christian someone is?
Ten or fifteen years ago one of
the leading accusations would
have been that of "Conformity!"
and students especially would re-spond
with loud demonstrations
of injustice, sounding the battle
cry of "Freedom!"
Student unrest at Bethel was of
course nothing like Kent State,
but there was considerable discus-sion,
not just of the Vietnam
"war," but also of personal
rights, freedom of choice, and the
place of authority. So of course
lifestyle issues were also an open
topic for debate.
Evidently the students were
pressing for the rules to be spelled
out clearly and definitively, be-cause
the 1970-71 catalog was the
first to carry a lifestyle policy simi-lar
at all to our present one.
Before that? Fewer students,
more willingness to accept author-ity,
a different social milieu, per-haps
more homogeneity in student
lifestyles before Bethel, even more
peer pressure would all combine
to make lifestyle less of an issue.
But the lifestyle statement isn't
just a threatened administration's
attempts to crack down on some
defiant, belligerent rebels of the
sixties. Let's think for a minute
who's responsible for the lifestyle
policy.
Certainly the BGC, who owns
this place and pays a fourth of the
cost of keeping it going, has a
right to say something about it (it
does, so through the Board of Re-appeals
to the O.T. it is to the
events before the curse (I Cor
11:8, 12; 14:34; I Tim 2:13, 14).
Male leadership and female sub-mission
is not a distortion of
God's will in creation but an ex-pression
of it.
Fifth, when Paul says in Gal.
3:28 that "there is neither male
nor female" we may proceed in
two ways. We can let the rest of
Paul's teachings guide us in deter-mining
what ways sexuality does
not count. Or we can arbitrarily
absolutize this statement so that
even committed homosexuality is
condoned. Mollenkott seems to
take the latter approach.
I think it is more courteous to
Paul to let his other words set the
limits on Gal 3:28. If we do, there
is no reason to think that male lea-dership
and female submission
contradicts the fact that Christian
men and women are equally sons
of God (Gal 3:26) equally clothed
with Christ (3:27) and equally
heirs of the promise (3:29). The
fact that I Pt 3:1, 7 puts submis-sion
and equality of inheritance
gents). So do the faculty and ad-ministration,
who keep it running.
And we students should have a
voice, too. So if the lifestyle is,
and is the way it is, it is because
the (weighted) majority in those
three groups want it that way.
How about the function of the
lifestyle? If we look at the be-havior
of Bethel people as the best
indicator of what the lifestyle poli-cy
(regardless of what's printed)
together in the same context
shows that the two were not re-garded
as contradictory.
All I have tried to do in this let-ter
is to show that some of the
strongest arguments that Mollen-kott
and others have offered for
abandoning male headship are not
sound. For those who want a
broader treatment which arrives at
similar conclusions, see George
W. Knight, The New Testament
Teaching on the Role Relationship
of Men and Women (1977).
Finally, it may well be that my
understanding of the Bible is
strongly influenced by the home in
which I grew up and by the tre-mendous
happiness I enjoy now
with my wife and sons. So I am
open to correction. But let's re-member
that the pressures to in-terpret
sex roles in Scripture to
our own liking is just as strong
from the egalitarian mood of our
age as it is from hierarchical tra-dition.
John Piper
Biblical and Theological Studies
really is, either because we put a
premium on enforcement or be-cause
behavior is a consistent re-flection
of character, then by the
same token, we can look at what is
printed as descriptive of the char-acter
of those people who would
agree to follow it and subject
themselves to that enforcement.
So one of the reasons we have a
lifestyle policy is that students, es-see
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Two years ago, Dan Hogan was
a Bethel senior looking forward to
graduation with a social work ma-jor
and hoping to go on to semin-ary
to prepare for the ministry.
Today he is married and back at
Bethel working with the mainten-ance
department.
Hogan attended Bethel for five
years, taking a year off during
1975 to travel the country with the
evangelism corps, a group of 24
college students who trained
others in the church to share their
faith. After graduation, rather
than enter directly into seminary,
he worked construction in Sioux
Falls, S.D.
That next fall, shortly before
homecoming, Dan was in Chicago
and called his friend and, un-known
to him, future wife, Bev
Brown, to see if they might not
ride to Bethel together. She had
also attended Bethel and had
transferred after a year and a half
to Thorton in Chicago, majoring
in occupational therapy.
Somewhere between Chicago
and St. Paul, an old flame was
rekinkled. They had been friends
since childhood and dated once in
high school, but nothing came of
it. After that date, when Bev's
mother asked her if she thought
Dan would ask her out again. She
replied, "Oh no, but I'm sure
we'll get together sometime."
So now what are Dan and Bev
Hogan's plans? In considering his
basic desire to serve the Lord, his
interests and dreams, Dan decided
to enter camp maintenance where
he can use his skills in building, re-pairing
and keeping things clean.
He now works about 25 hours
with the Bethel maintenance de-partment
and drives a school bus
in the mornings and hopes to con-tinue
there until a good opportun-ity
comes up at a camp.
Dan thinks that it is important
to listen to personal dreams. "We
all struggle with God's call and we
don't all get called in the same
way—listen to your own interests
and desires and God-given talents
and abilities."
Dan is finding his call, a pipe
wrench in one hand, a Bible in the
other, keeping the bolts of the
world tight in more ways than
one.
tween people is to establish rules,
whether they be established proce-dures
(e.g, driving on the right),
moral codes (e.g., biblical princi-ples)
or agreement between people
(e.g, a contract). We have to have
at least some rules in order to get
along and work with each other.
In the process we establish a sort
of atmosphere that we can all be
comfortable with, for the most
part.
Let me confess that I am an
idealist. If I had my way, the only
rules we would have committed
ourselves to before coming into
this community would be Biblical
and academic ones. But I know
I'm an idealist.
And I'm here by choice, and so
is everyone else. So in that choice I
commit myself to accepting, at
least for the time being, the rules
others have chosen here.
That, I submit, is the essence of
community.
Hogan joins maintenance
as result of God's call
Lifestyle, from page 3
pecially before they choose to
come, know what to expect and
what is expected of them.
Another thing we have to do
when examining the reasons for
having this lifestyle is to look at it
in two parts. Most of us have no
problem with the Biblical injunc-tions:
by definitions we as Chris-tians
are committed to the exam-ple
and teachings of Christ. It's
the community expectations we
object to, if we object at all. Why
must we have standards set for us
in addition to what the Bible has
set? Is it the school's responsi-bility
or right to spell out for us
the straight and narrow in what
we call the "gray areas"?
We must realize what kind of
community we are. We come from
backgrounds that range broadly
across the spectrum from conser-vative
to liberal. When people of
different value systems come toge-ther,
some conflict is inevitable.
I have to consider the possibility
of the "weaker brother" who is
tempted to sin or is hurt or an-gered
by what another brother
does, especially if I am the one
who is tempted, hurt or angry.
I didn't realize just how possi-ble
that pain could be until just a
few days ago two Christian friends
of mine were hurt and furious at
the way they took something I
did. I still don't feel I did anything
wrong, but I learned to be more
concerned for others' values and
feelings.
One way to avoid conflict be-
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Soap opera fans converge daily in the student activity center to find out if Phoebe will again
bring up Donna's past, if Chuck can forget Tara, or if Wally can compete with Sean, despite his
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by Peter Nelson
It doesn't take many visits to
the student activity center to real-ize
that soap operas are not just a
housewife favorite. Every week-day
a number of Bethel students
meander past the p.o.'s to take in
some television drama.
It seems that soap operas have
taken the brunt of much negative
criticism, but among the masses
that keep them on the air for
hours daily are the soap operas'
staunch defendants. From all
sides of the issues the Bethel stu-dents
speak:
"How often do you watch soap
operas?"
Bill Tulberg: "I don't."
Julie Stake: "Once in a while."
by Gloria Martin
Gerri Wessman, former dean of
women at Northwestern Col-lege,
has been appointed to fill the
newly created position of admini-strative
assistant to President
Lundquist.
Wessman came to Bethel last
Cindy Held: "Never."
Barb Kerssen: "Three times a
week, and more if possible."
Scott Feltman: "I don't make a
habit of it."
Jack Olson: "Three times a
week. Just one show—`All My
Children."'
(Incidentally, "All My Chil-dren"
is the current favorite in the
Student Activity Center.)
Graham Boyd: "I don't usual-ly.
This is my first time."
Patty King: "Daily. At least
one show, sometimes two."
"Why do you watch soap
operas?"
Julie: "I think they're funny."
Barb: "They're kind of funny,
and addicting too."
Jack: "Good question. To keep
my girlfriend informed—she's in
class now."
November as a part-time assis-tant.
Less than a month later she
began full-time at Bethel, contin-uing
on at Northwestern part-time.
Now she is working solely at
Bethel.
When President Lundquist first
inquired about her coming to Be-thel,
Wessman was hesitant be-cause
of her contentment where
she was. After much prayer and
consideration she felt the Lord
was directing her to come to Be-thel.
Wessman said, "I feel that
God lead me to Bethel and that
my mission is to serve Christ
here."
Wessman's administrative posi-tion
here at Bethel reaches out in
many different facets. She is re-sponsible
for assisting the presi-dent
in planning and administer-ing
the functions of the
president's office. She works
closely with the president, assist-ing
wherever she can be of help.
Among many things, she is in-
Graham: "I just wandered in
here."
Patty: "They're interesting."
"Why do you think soap operas
have become popular with the col-lege
crowd?"
Bill: "They show the real
world."
Barb: "Watching soap operas
becomes part of my routine with
the TV right here."
Scott: "College students have
more free time than lots of other
people."
Jack: "Many of the characters
are young, close to our stage in
life."
Graham: "You can forget your
own worries a little."
Patty: "Soap operas provide a
break in the day. They also let you
escape from the everyday world
and forget your own worries."
volved in writing the 'Vista,' as-sisting
in public relations ac-tivities,
and oftentimes speaking
at conferences and retreats. "The
position is both interesting and
challenging because I assist the
president in all areas," comment-ed
Wessman.
It is also a part of the job to be
liaison between the president's of-fice
and all campus student
groups. She loves working with
college students so much that be-fore
accepting the job at Bethel
she had to make sure that she
would be able to work directly
with the students.
Wessman first began working
with college students shortly after
the death of her husband. She at-tended
graduate school at Augus-tana
College in Sioux Falls, S.D.
She graduated in 1973, and in the
fall of that year she began at
Northwestern.
There is a Bible verse which
Wessman is encouraged by daily,
and which she uses as her theme.
She stated, "After my husband's
death, I turned to the Living Bible
he had given me. Found `my
verse' in Romans 5:2, 'And be-cause
of our Faith, He has
brought us into this place of high-est
privilege where we now stand,
and we confidently and joyfully
look forward to actually becom-ing
all that God has had in mind
for us to be."
I remember when I first came to Bethel. Boy what a treat: food cards,
Uncle Carl, Doc's corner, and of course, the Beef Board. Beef Board?
Why a Beef Board at a Christian College? I mean, what do Christians
have to complain about?
Well, it's been two or three years now, but as far as I can remember,
boys complained about girls, girls complained about boys, and both
complained about the food.
Now, obviously, I can do nothing about Bethel food, but maybe I can
suggest a few things that can be done about the battle of the sexes. But
first, allow me to digress again.
I remember how it was when I was in elementary school. The girls, as
much as we secretly liked them, were the enemy. They had fleas, and
there wasn't one self-respecting guy who would even go near them
without "Flea Powder" scrawled on his hand. Ah yes, elementary
school.
But of course we all grow up, don't we? I was still afraid of girls in
high school, but at least the "Flea Powder" incantation was no longer
necessary. Girls, terrifying though, they might be, were all right. That was
high school.
Then, there was my Early Christian period. I found myself in the
highly desirable position of being "brother" to a rather large number of
devout "sisters." This, I decided, was good. Women were my friends.
And then—the Sermons. Women, pastors and evangelists suggested,
were O.K., but "subject" to men. Paul said so, and they said so, and if
everybody said so, it must be true. Or it seemed that way at least.
Now I am in my "Mature" state of Chistian development. (A highly
arguable assertion, I know,.but let it go.) I view women from an entirely
different point of view. Women, I have discovered, are not "naturally"
inferior to me, as earlier pastors had implied. They are, for the most
part, competent, capable, and unwilling to be treated as less than equals.
Believing these things to be true, I still have to analyze why I tend to
dislike breast-beating feminists. I suppose it's because some have a
tendency to dislike the sex that I belong to. (Which is understandable,
perhaps, when consideration is paid to the amount of time my sex has
locked them into the "little women" cubbyhole.) I guess I dislike people
who don't like me.
This, however, is not a problem at Bethel. Feminists, here, are more
concerned with being who they are, rather than tearing down men.- This
is a great good, because often angry words and resentment tend to bring
about the opposite of one's true desires.
I realize that I have been rambling for longer than is excusable, so let
me leave you with a suggestion. Women and men of Bethel, you are
really on the same side. Created by one God, and justified by one
Christ, you have no grounds for apartheid on the basis of sex.
I would like to address my own sex, and call them to repentance for
our mutual attitudes toward women. Shame on us, guys; women are our
friends. Let's let them be who they are, and what they want to be. I'm
sure Jesus would have wanted it that way.
And now: women of Bethel, — remember that you are a creation of
God as individuals, not as a sex-role. Aspire to glorify God by your uni-queness,
not on the basis of being the most "subjectable" wife, if the
"least-unique" girlfriend. You have a glorious position in the Kingdom.
If God has given you leadership ability, use it. God does not waste
talents.
Bethel: the idea of a battle between the sexes is folly. We are a body.
Let's not treat each other as anything less than equals. Let us follow the
excellent analysis given to us by the folks at P.R. and show ourselves
and the greater Christian community that Bethel really and truly is peo-ple.
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Worship Services at 9:00 & 11:15 AM
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Battle of sexes over;
men, women join one side
by John van Vloten
At long last, the secret ingredients of Bethelitest favorite- edibles have been made public.
Page 6
Secular rock artistry of The Who
intrigues, unifies concert-goers
by Mark C. Anderson
On Friday, May 2, I had the ul-timate
in secular experiences. I
went to The Who's secular rock
and roll concert.
I was surrounded by secular
people who had all kinds of smok-ing
paraphernalia—and no Bibles.
I went to the concert because I am
a great admirer of The Who. I en-joy
their music and insights repre-senting
"my generation."
The Who proved to me on Fri-day
night that, after 15 years, they
have not lost their ability to play
good rock and roll in it's purest
form, and they have not lost the
talent of communicating through
their rock and roll.
The repertoire of the concert
was a well chosen anthology of
their most intriguing songs. They
opened with two early songs,
"Substitute" and "I Can't Ex-plain."
They captured the same
60's spirit and flavor with these
first two songs.
They went on to play their song
about teenage wasteland, "Baba
O'Reilly." Lead singer Roger Dal-trey
marched victoriously while
the band played this song of
youthful freedom and rebellion.
They continued to play many
classic favorites of their 15-year
career—"My Wife," "Who are
You?," "Behind Blue Eyes,"
"Pinball Wizard," "I Can See for
Miles," and others.
They also did an up-tempo ver-sion
of "My Generation" in
which Daltrey yelled • the familiar
lyrics, "Things they do look awful
c-c-c-cold—I hope I die before I
g-get old."
The concert kept building in its
intensity and climaxed when they
played parts from their rock opera
"Tommy." Pete Townshend daz-zled
the crowd with his virtuosity
in the guitar-centered instrumen-tal
"Sparks." Townshend's guitar
went through the various
phases—angry, sad, and joyful—
while the band kept the rhythm.
After the guitar drained the
crowd's emotions, there was a
short silence, followed by Roger
Daltrey's compassionate voice
singing, "See me, feel me, touch
me, heal me." Daltrey captured
the true emotion of the song and
sounded close to tears.
The band then went into the tri-umphant
and cathartic "Listening
to You" as spotlights were shining
on the crowd. The crowd reaction
was fascinating to watch. The
whole audience was on its feet in a
celebrative, "secular" unity.
After this highpoint in the con-cert,
the band played "Long Live
Rock"—an appropriate "amen"
to the previous songs.
The final song was the classic
"Won't Get Fooled Again," in
which there as a great explosion
on stage while Roger Daltrey did
his scream of suspended duration.
After a long wait the band came
out and encored with "Young
Man Blues" and a 60's medley.
The Who still use the effective
stage antics which characterize
their aggressive, exuberant rock
and roll. Townshend made some
incredible leaps into the air, danc-ed
across the stage, and ripped the
chords out of his guitar with his
circular strums.
Daltrey swung his mike into the
air, jogged and marched about the
stage, and sang with an astound-ing
emotional range. Townshend
and Daltrey still have their joyful,
playful, youthful, rebellious
spirits after 15 years.
John Entwhistle stood in the
background and dexteriously
played the powerful notes of his
bass. The missing element was
Keith Moon, who died in 1978.
Drummer Kenny Jones was an
adequate replacement, but there is
no one who could imitate Moon's
character or style of drumming.
There was also a multi-key-board
player and a brass section
to add some texture to the music.
The Who amazingly captured
every rock and roll emotion in
concert. Townshend's guitar and
Daltrey's voice gave a feeling of
relief through the expression of
frustration and aggression.
It was appropriate that they en-cored
with the song "Young Man
Blues" in which Daltrey scream-ed,
"a young man ain't got no-thing
in the world."
It is no wonder that people are
so attracted to The Who's rock
and roll—a person can have
nothing in the world, but still feel
triumphant while listening to The
Who express similar frustrations.
Unlike the dime-a-dozen party-rock
bands, The Who have real
depth in their music. They dis-played
the true artistry of their
rock on Friday night.
That was my secular experience.
It didn't give me a satanic, hedon-istic
outlook on life. It gave me a
memorable night of great rock
and roll.
Looking at the concert from a
Christian perspective (up to this
point this has been a secular re-view)
I am reminded that I too
have something to offer a young
man with nothing in the world.
by Shari Goddard
As each of us spends more and
more time within the Bethel Corn-munity,
we develop our special
likes to things around the campus:
our favorite painting, our favorite
chair, our favorite foods. The
following are recipes of a few
epicurean favorites that the Bethel
food service offers.
Special
A few years ago, Randy
(Stump) Fredin, a coffeeshop
student-employee, developed a
new menu item. The "Stump Spe-cial
, " later shortened to
"Special" has since won the
hearts of many Bethel students
and employees.
Hamburger mix:
1 lb ground beef
• C chopped onion
11/2 tsp Worchestershire sauce
11/2 tsp. vinegar
11/2 tsp. brown sugar
1 tsp. mustard
1-8oz can of tomato sauce
'A can water
Fry ground beef, drain, add
onion and cook until tender. Add
other ingredients and heat
through.
On one slice of bread, place let-tuce
and two slices of tomato.
Scoop on desired amount of mix
and place one slice of American
cheese on top of that. Finish with
another slice of bread. Often ea-ten
with a knife and fork.
Vegetable Beef Soup
Vegetable soup allows for a
great amount of creativity. Left-over
vegetables can be added and
new combinations tried to make
the soup a little different each
time it is made.
▪ C diced celery
• C diced onions
'A C diced carrots
• C shredded cabbage
'A C peas
• C lima beans
'A C barley (optional)
3 qts. beef stock
Prepare vegetables and add to
hot beef stock. Cook until veget-ables
are tender. Add barley (if
desired) and cook until tender.
Leftover vegetables and beef can
be added, heat through. Season to
taste.
East End Bars
Often called Shelly bars because
of their common association with
Shelly Nielsen (Clarion
columnist), these bars are tempt-ing
favorite of many students.
• C butter
• C sugar
• C cocoa
• tsp vanilla
1 egg
2 C graham cracker crumbs
1 C nuts
1 C coconut
Cream butter, sugar, cocoa,
vanilla and egg. Stir until thick.
Add graham cracker crumbs, nuts
and coconut. Mix and pat into
greased 9" x 9" pan. Bake 10 min.
only at 300° F. The mix may seem
soupy, but that is normal.
Icing:
1 C butter
3 tbsp. vanilla instant pudding
3 tbsp. milk
2 C powdered sugar
Combine butter, milk and pud-ding
mix. Beat well and add pow-dered
sugar. Spread on cooled
bars. Refrigerate about 20 min.
Melt 'A cup of chocolate chips
and spread on top of icing (not
too much, just enough for a mar-bled
effect).
Chapel Schedule
Monday, Sojourns
Tuesday, Honors Convo-cation
Chapel
Wednesday, Dr. George
Brushaber
Thursday, Sing and Share
Friday, Pastor Spickelmier
Food service reveals best recipes
The 22nd Sentate held its first
meeting April 15 with a general in-troduction
to the student govern-ment
process at Bethel. Of the 15
Senators elected this spring, 12
have no previous Senate ex-perience
at Bethel.
The Senate has taken action on
installing a Praise Board that will
go up next to the Beef Board. The
Student Survey was also put out,
with the results now being compil-ed.
Bills now before the Senate
relate to the airport shuttle ser-vice,
the idea of publishing a
handbook that rates teachers and
"MERP" is finally here girls.
By now, you should have gotten
your tickets for Saturday's activi-ties.
Friday will be the last day
we'll be selling tickets, and you
can't get them once you get there.
The bus will leave NC at 10:30
a.m. to go to Taylors Falls. If you
plan to ride the bus, you need to
sign up on the C.C. door by Frid-ay.
Your $8 tickets will include
three alpine slide rides at Wild
Mt., a boat excursion ride down
the St. Croix River, and canoe
rental for two hours. The buses
will plan on leaving Taylors Falls
about 5 p.m. Don't forget to pack
a special picnic for that special
person!
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Golfers
Interested in participating in a resurrec-tion
of the traditional Clarion-Como
Study Day Golf Epic? Tournament to be
held Monday, May 19. Submit applica-tions
or indication of interest to PO 2381
This mundane eating locale will be transformed into a almost immediately.
"Terrace" room as part of MI-School Banquet's "Gone With
The Wind" theme.
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Rookie senators start job
In the continued effort to give
students the chance to make
their products, personals, and
other information known to
the Bethel community, the
Clarion accepts classified ads
to P.O. 2381 by Sunday before
publication. Pre-payment
preferred.
their classes according to student
opinion, and the idea of having
the students re-sign the lifestyle
statement each time they register.
Action will be taken on all of these
bills at the next Senate meeting,
May 13 at 6 p.m. in the Student
Activity Center Listening Room.
The Senate encourages students
to come to the Tuesday meetings
and have some input as to the ac-tion
taken on the bills now before
the Senate. If you are interested in
making Bethel a better school,
please help the Senate accomplish
this goal.
rollerskating party again on Fri-day
evening (or is it Saturday
morning?). Well, this party is for
an SMP benefit so the price will be
$1.75. Get out for some hot eight-wheel
action, and let's have a
great time! Buses will run as usual.
Next weekend, our last roller-skating
party will be on Friday
night. Then the highlight of the
year will take place on Saturday
evening, May 17, 1980. I'm refer-ring
to the "All-School
Banquet."
The banquet and program will
be held at school, and they'll be
better than ever. All Bethel stu-dents,
faculty, staff, and adminis-tration
receive the entire evening
free of charge. Spouses of full-time
faculty and staff are also ad-mitted
free. Anyone other than
those people just mentioned must
pay $7 for the evening.
Travel
A FEW RESERVATIONS
STILL AVAILABLE FOR
THE GREAT OBERAMMER-GAU
PASSION PLAY TOUR
Led by Dean Gordon Johnson
and Prof Bob Featherstone of
Bethel Seminary.
Starting this year, the Senate is
adding a Student Advisory Com-mittee
that will bring to Senate
new ideas that the students on the
committee feel are important.
These issues will deal with admis-sions
policies, food service, life-style
or any other issue the
students feel is important.
This committee will assist the
Senate in better serving the stu-dent
body. If you are interested in
this committee, please stop by the
Senate office for more informa-tion.
This year's Senate is looking
forward to a productive year, with
your help.
However, TAKE NOTICE!
Everyone must have a reservation
for a certain table in one of the
three dining rooms in order to be
admitted. No one will be admitted
without reservations. Also, your
reservation must be made by
Thursday, May 15.
You can make your reservation
at the C.C. office beginning Wed-nesday,
May 7, through Thurs-day,
May 15. At that time, you
must show a validated Bethel ID,
and you will choose which room
you would prefer to eat in, along
with which table you would prefer
to eat at. You will have your
choice of the "Tara" room (gym),
the "Riverboat" room (coffee-shop),
or the "Terrace" room
(cafeteria).
Our theme for the banquet this
year is "Gone With the Wind," so
the rooms will be decorated as
such. The menu will be the same
for each room: 8 oz. steak, baked
potato, tossed salad, mixed veget-ables,
dinner rolls, and dessert.
Prior to the banquet there will be
a punch reception in the courtyard
outside of the coffeeshop from 6-7
p.m.
Those eating in the gym will be-gin
being served at 6:30, with the
serving beginning at 7:00 in the
other two rooms. The banquet
will be followed by a very high-quality
program put together by
Jeff Miller, Deb Olson, and Lana
Weeks, beginning at 8:30 p.m. in
the gym.
This is a formal occasion where
the entire Bethel family gets toge-ther,
so it will be a really
"special" evening! Make your re-servations
right away. Have a
GREAT week.
Also going to Rome, Venice,
Geneva, Etc. July 27th to Aug.
12th. Phone Bob: Campus 6193
Home 633-6900.
Athlete Leslie Smith has a unique status as one of only two stu-dent
members of the MAIAW.
Woman serves committee,
interprets athletic rules
by Patty Sutton The MAIAW consists of
coaches, athletic directors and stu-
Leslie Smith is one of the two dents. The board is made up of 12
student representatives on the members.
Minnesota Association for the In-tercollegiate
Athletics for Women
(MAIAW) executive board.
She was elected at the sprilig
conference meeting last March to
take the postion of the previous
officer that had to leave.
The MAIAW is a division of the
AIAW and is responsible for the
interpretation of rules and policies
and the running of women's tour-naments.
Take date to MERP picnic,
all-school-at-school show
"One thing I like is that the
MAIAW encourages student par-ticipation,"
said Smith.
Next January the national con-ference
is in Detroit and Smith
hopes to attend.
She is responsible for attending
two to three board meetings next
year, voting on the board, and
helping to conduct the fall and
spring MAIAW meetings
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Bryan Galloway (left) and Paul Otto (center) make up half of Bethel's fine mile relay team
(Photo Dan Velie).
Royals, Tommies split pair
by Steve Erickson
Catcher Jay Tornquist
singled home Ron Kaihoi
with the winning run in the
bottom of the sixth inning,
helping Bethel to a
doubleheader split with St.
Thomas Tuesday.
The Royals, who won the
first game 5-4 after losing a
4-0 lead, were trounced in
the second game 21-3.
With two outs in the sixth
and the score tied 4-4,
Kaihoi singled and went to
second when the left-fielder
bobbled the ball. Rick
Bachofner hit a shot off the
third-baseman's chest, ad-vancing
Kaihoi to third
before Tornquist got the
game winner.
Pete Parker led off the
bottom of the first with a
homerun over the left-field
fence. In the second, Mitch
Duininck singled, stole se-cond,
went to third on a
ground out, and scored on a
sacrifice fly by Bachofner.
The lead quickly went to
4-0 when Dave Fauth
homered with Paul Lind-berg
on first in the third. It
was Fauth's fifth round-tripper
of the year.
Tom Weko, who gave up
only a pair of runs in each
of the fifth and sixth inn-ings,
went the full distance
for the win.
In the nightcap the Tom-mies
took an early 1-0 lead.
The Royals came right back
in their half of the first.
Parker singled, Lindberg,
perhaps Bethel's most
dangerous hitter, then walk-ed,
and Fauth singled up
the middle for one run. Jeff
Wilson knocked in another
run with a single, and
Duininck's sacrifice fly sent
home the final run for a 3-1
lead.
But from then on it was
all St. Thomas. Five runs
in the second and four more
in the third and the rout was
on.
Page 8 sports
Velgersdyk qualifies
for national meet
68.38 in the 400-meter race. Sherri
Lindquist finished 6th in the
100-meter- dash.
The distance runners did well
despite the 85-90 degree heat.
Brenda Harris had a personal best
in the 1500-meter run with a 5:07.
Wendy Norberg and Ellie Abbott
radically bettered their times in
the 3,000-meter run with times of
11:06 and 11:08 respectively. Nor-berg
also took 5th in the
5,000-meter run. All three women
combined efforts with Theresa
Meredith for 5th place in the
3200-meter relay.
The sprint relays also looked
tough. Lynn Severson, Lindquist,
The Royals concluded the
season with a 9-9 record.
"We have a young team, and
there were a lot of inconsistencies
throughout the season," said La-
Rock, "but if we can keep the
team together for next year, we
should get much stronger."
Women's softball finishes at .500
by Wendy Norberg
Last weekend the women's
track team traveled north to
Moorhead to compete in the state
championship meet. Eighteen
schools participated with the re-sults
divided into two divisions.
Division II consisted of the six
state schools while Division III in-cluded
Bethel and 11 other private
colleges. Of these twelve schools
Bethel finished 5th after a long,
tough battle for third place be-tween
St. Thomas (80 pts.) Gusta-vus
(74 pts), and Bethel (72 pts.).
The outstanding performance
of the meet was turned in by Sara
by Carol Madison
The women's softball team won
just one game against two losses in
the state tournament to finish the
season at 9-9, but the highlight of
the tournament was the perfor-mance
of Tami Miller and Gail
Heinsch.
Miller, who averaged .636 for
the tournament, was selected to
the all-state team for her contri-butions
at third base. Miller has
played second base for two sea-sons,
but was moved to third in an
infield shake-up to compensate
for an injured first baseman.
Gail Heinsch played errorless
ball in right field, and also man-aged
to hit .555 for the tourna-ment.
Her efforts included .a
homerun in the first game.
The Royals entered the tourna-ment
seeded fourth, drew a bye in
the first round, and then lost their
first game to St. Benedict 10-8.
Five errors by Bethel contributed
to eight unearned runs for St.
Ben's, which was the difference in
the game.
The Royals defense suffered a
blow as first baseman Kim
Schmidt was kept out of the tour-nament
with a knee injury. She
was also leading the offense up to
that point with a .600 average.
Gail Heinsch and Becky Bruss
Barker, who is now the new state
champion in the discus with a
throw of 124' 8".
Barker deserves special recogni-tion
as the first woman in Bethel
history to ever place first in State
competition. She later took third
in the shot put with a throw of
38'.
Deb Sension jumped 5'2" in the
high jump, earning 2nd place in
that event. She took 5th in the ja-velin
and teammate Sheila Kroon
finished right behind her at 6th
place.
Jennifer Burgess excelled in the
hurdle taking third in two events
with a 16.27 in the 100-meter and
went 2-4.
Despite a slow start against St.
Theresa's in the second game, the
Royals came on strong in the fifth
and sixth innings to win 11-5. A
slower pitcher caused some over-anxiousness
at the plate, but the
Royals adjusted and came from
behind after the 4th inning.
Heinsch again led hitting by go-ing
3-4, and Julie Murphy and
Tami Miller each went 3-5. Mur-phy
had a homerun and three
RBI's.
Laura Kreutzfeldt pitched a
strong relief game and shut St.
Theresa's offense down.
The Royals lost a close final
game to St. Mary's on an un-earned
run in the bottom of the
fifth inning. With the game tied
4-4 in the fifth, an error scored
what proved to be the final and
winning run.
Bethel had only four hits in the
game, and were shut out after the
third by a relief pitcher that was
eventually named to the all-state
team.
"It was our best game of the
tournament, and we had good ag-gressive
hitting and base running,'
said Coach Marcia LaRock. "But
our inexperience hurt us."
Julie Stake had two RBI's on
one hit, and Miller went 2-3, in-cluding
a triple.
by Ellie Abbott
Jason Velgersdyk qualified for
nationals in the high jump and
lead the men's track team to a
third place team finish at Macal-ester,
Friday, May 2.
Ahead of the Royals were Ham-line
with 1061/2 points and Carle-ton
with 641/2 points. Bethel was
third with 56 points, and far be-hind
Bethel were Augsburg, Mac-alester
and St. Thomas.
There were a number of school
records broken by the Bethel
trackmen and seven personal bests
in addition to the records. Vel-gersdyk's
jump of 6'8" in the high
jump gave him a second place and
also qualified him for the national
meet.
Phil Asay placed second in the
110-meter high-hurdles. His time
of 14.9 was fast enough to break a
school record. Senior Jim Feleen
also smashed a school record,
placing sixth in the 3000-meter
Burgess and Meredith took 2nd in
the 800-meter medley relay. The
same four women got their best
time and took 4th in the 1600-me-ter
(mile) relay (4:09.8).
Severson, Burgess, Lindquist,
and Sension ran away with 2nd in
the 400-meter relay with a time of
50.90. Later, with a personal best
time of 26.61, Lynn Severson cap-tured
2nd in the 200-meter dash.
Bethel held third place over ri-vals
St. Thomas and Gustavus
throughout most of the meet, but
lack of team depth hurt the
11-member squad in the end.
Coach Shirley Dawson was
pleased with the team's efforts
and hopes to see more improve-ment
by the women this weekend.
In the last and biggest meet of
the season ten of the women have
qualified in one or more events for
the seven-State Region
Championships in Des Moines,
Iowa. The team hopes to success-fully
top off their excellent 1980
track season.
steeple chase with a time of
9:46.0. The previous record was
9:59.0 held by Jeff Larson. Paul
Otto placed second in the 400-me-ter
dash, breaking a school record
with a time of 48.0 seconds.
Three Bethel trackmen got a
personal best in the 800-meter
run. Bryan Galloway was clocked
at 1:57.4. Dan Hauser earned his
best time of 2:02.3 and John Bur-ton
was close behind Hauser with
a time of 2:03.7.
In other events Keith Johnson
got a personal best in the 100-me-ter
dash (10.9). Paul Rynders got
his best time of the season in the
400-meter intermediate hurdles
(57.6) and Andy Larson jumped
21'3" in the long jump. Freshman
Ross Allen got a personal best in
the 3000-meter steeple chase with a
time of 10:15'2.
Next weekend Bethel will travel
again to Macalester for the two
day Conference meet on Friday
and Saturday.
Dave Mitroff leads off in a re-cent
Royal game (Photo Dan
Velie).
SPORTS SHORT—Next
week's Clarion will contain
information on the new
football coach and the win-ners
of the third annual
Clarion Athlete of the Year
award.
Barker takes state discus championship

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Dave Broza, pianist and singer in Priest and the Scribes, will be performing with other members
of the group in their benefit concert tonight, May 9, at 8 p.m. in the gym. Admission is $1.50.
the Clarion Vol. 55, No. 24 Bethel College St. Paul, MN May 9, 1980
Briggs, Anderson counsel homosexuals
The new women's state champion in the discus is Bethel's Sara
Barker. More information on page 8.
by Jan Johnson
In 1948, Alfred Kinsey released
his findings of a survey of sexual
behavior among American males
and reported that four percent of
all adult males "considered them-selves
to be exclusively homo-sexual."
Further statistics showed
that one to two percent of all adult
females in America consider
themselves to be also.
"The educator must realize that
Christian men and women are no
less prone to homosexual tempta-tion
and personal struggle than
any other person, and that to ig-nore
church members' concerns in
this area is tantamount to ignoring
reality," wrote David Anderson,
assistant professor of psychology,
in a recent article.
Both Anderson and Doug
Briggs, assistant professor in thea-tre
arts, spent time counseling in-dividuals
struggling with homo-sexuality
when they aren't work-ing
at Bethel. Anderson has a gen-eral
counseling practice in which
he sometimes gets clients looking
for help with their homosexual
practice.
"There are two groups of
homosexuals," says Anderson.
"Group One consists of people
actively involved in 'gay' rela-tionships.
Group Two members
are more secretive. They are strug-gling
for sexual identity. They
may have had homosexual fanta-sies
or dreams, but are not yet rea-dy
to admit that they actually are
`gay.' They may not even want to,
but they are having self doubts.
That's the group I have contact
with.
Anderson works on the premise
that what can be learned can be
unlearned, and sexual preferences
are learned.
"It takes a lot of discipline,
group support, and it helps to
have a faith in God," Anderson
explained. As a Christian, he be-lieves
that homosexuality is
wrong.
"In my view, it's a sin. But it's
too simplistic to just leave it at
that. It's typically symptomatic of
other concerns in the person's life,
and it needs to go through a pro-cess
of healing."
Anderson views each individual
as body, soul, and spirit. First he
asks, "Does he have a faith?" If
he does, Anderson tries to streng-then
it. The next step is to go back
into the individual's earlier life to
try and find what may have pre-disposed
the person to have
homosexual tendencies.
Finally, the counselor, through
various techniques, attempts to
get the individual to disassociate
homosexual ideas with feelings of
pleasure.
Like Anderson, Doug Briggs
also views homosexuality as a sin.
"The only real hope is through
the power of Christ," Briggs said.
Briggs works as a layman-coun-selor
through an independent
ministry known as Outpost. Out-post
shares a building and a tele-phone
number with Lovelines,
employs two fulitime staff work -
ers and five or six volunteers, and
works exclusively with homosex-uals.
Briggs got involved in this min-istry
about a year-and-a-half ago.
His wife was taking a course in
minorities here at Bethel and a
guest speaker, himself an ex-gay,
brought up the problem of the
lack of opportunities for Chris-tians
struggling with homosexual
tendencies to get help.
Having worked in theatre in
California before coming to Be-thel,
Briggs had come across
"gays" before and so he felt that
he could offer more than just a
"shoulder to cry on." He looked
into it and discovered Outpost.
"Homosexuality is just a sin,
and like any other sin it must be
dealt with," said Briggs. "All we
ask is that the individual coming
for help view it as a sin also."
He has worked with everything
from those who just think that
they might be gay, to hustlers, to
sado-masochists...from teens to
people in their 40's and 50's...
from singles to marrieds...even
students.
Both Briggs and Anderson
agree that homosexuality is a
problem that Christians must
learn to face, not "sweep under
the carpet."
Dr. Walter Wessel (Photo
Tom Twining).
by Carol Madison
After extensive recruiting ef-forts,
which included an interview
in Cairo, Egypt, four new fulltime
faculty members have been hired
to fill vacancies in the Bible
department.
These replacements will fill
positions left open by Dr. John
Piper, who is taking a pastorate at
Bethlehem Baptist, and David
Baker, who plans to continue
theological training in Vancouver.
Dr. Wayne Grudem will be on
sabbatical for the fall semester,
and Dr. Walter Wessel, chairman
of the department, will take a sab-batical
for the entire year.
"The recruiting effort has been
the most concerted effort ever in
the history of this department,"
said Wessel. "Dean Brushaber
and I have made extensive trips,
and Dr. Art Lewis interviewed one
replacement in Cairo, on his way
home from Israel."
Those joining the department in
Old Testament studies are Sheryl
Meltzer and Carl G. Rassmussen.
Meltzer is presently completing
her doctorate in semetics at the
University of Toronto, and once
served as an instructor at Evangel
College in Springfield, Missouri.
She has spent the past year in
Egypt while her husband has been
completing work on his doctorate
in Egyptology from the University
of Toronto.
Carl Rassmussen, who will also
teach Old Testament studies and
Hebrew, is presently the Dean of
the Institute of Holy Land Studies
in Jerusalem. He is a candidate
for a doctorate at Dropsie College
in Philadelphia. Rassmussen is
considered an authority on the
historical geography of the Holy
Land, and he has spent seven
years in Israel and conducted field
trips to various parts of the coun-try.
The New Testament studies will
receive Dr. Vernon Olson as an
addition to that department.
Dr. Olson is a graduate of
Bethel College and Seminary, and
has been a conference pastor for
eight years. He has been teaching
for the past 12 years at St. Paul
Bible College. Olsen will join the
faculty as professor of New Testa-ment.
David Murchie, the final new
faculty member, is a candidate for
a doctorate at Drew University,
and will teach history of Christian
doctrine, as well as theology.
Murchie is also an accomplished
concert violinist and played six
years with the Denver Symphony
orchestra.
"This is the first time in the
history of Bethel that we have had
three fulltime professors in the
Old Testament department," said
Wessel. "This will offer a much
greater variety of courses.
"We are still searching for
another faculty replacement in
New Testament," he added.
New Bible profs fill vacancies
letters
School structure creates barriers
the Clarion Vol. 55, No. 24 Bethel College May 9, 1980
The Clarion is published weekly by the students of Bethel Col-lege.
Editorial opinions are the sole responsibility of the Clarion
staff. Letters are welcome, and must be signed and delivered to
P.O. 2381 by the Sunday before publication.
Paul Olsen, Editor
Suzi Wells, Associate Editor
Carol Madison, News & Sports Editor
Steve Erickson, News & Sports Editor
Joy Nannette Banta, Copy Editor
Shelly Nielsen, Art Gibbens, Production
Suanne Hawkins, Business Manager,
Jay Russell, Editorial Assistant, Carolyn Olson, Graphics
Doug Barkey, Photography Editor, Juan Ortiz, Cartoonist
Scott Barsuhn, Fine Arts
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editorial
Corn. board needs
commitment, no-bias
The communications board, the student committee which governs the
Clarion, the Roster, Passages and KABY has functioned poorly in the
past year, passing hastily-considered recommendations on to the stu-dent
senate and being inordinately concerned with handing out money
and privileges to KABY.
At the root of the problem was the difficulty Sue Stone, chairman of
the board, had in filling vacant seats on the board. For most meetings, a
voting quorum was not present.
The only two members of the board who attended with any consisten-cy
were both employed by KABY. Though the com. board constitution
prohibits stipended employees of the media from serving on the board,
these two earned their money through work-study funding, technically
avoiding the anti-conflict of interest stipulation.
As a result, com. board meetings were often dominated by interests of
the radio station. For example, when it was suggested that the proba-tionary
status of KABY be removed, there was no discussion of pros,
cons or potential ramifications of the station's permanent status. When
KABY requested over $800 for a new transmitter, no one analyzed the
cost vs. the benefits, or the long range goals of the campus radio station.
Stone said she often felt frustrated for the lack of involvement of
those on the board. Members should be committed not only to a one-hour,
bi-weekly meeting, but also to research for their policy decisions.
This past year the com. board was responsible for $40,000 of student
association fees—four-fifths of the entire student association budget.
Responsibility such as this demands careful attention by the student
body.
To protect the integrity of the board, the wording of the constitution
should be changed to exclude all employees of the media as voting
members, regardless of method of payment; the individuals of the board
need to shoulder more responsibility for the decisions they make; and
the student senate needs to actively recruit committee members.
New chairman of the board, Caryl Brown, recently extended applica-tion
deadline to Monday, May 12. Underclassmen are encouraged to ap-ply—
they have been sorely under-represented of late. The respon-sibilities
of board work are great, but they usually are when the work is
important.
Response to survey
starts change process
Dear Editor,
When I entered Bethel four
years ago, I stepped into a world
of challenges as every incoming
freshman does. One of these chal-lenges
happened to be the physical
barriers around school. I wish to
identify the problem of physical
barriers, not for my benefit exclu-sively,
but for those persons who
may wish to attend Bethel but are
unable to because of the stair-ways.
Like most high school
graduates, I wanted to get away
from home and become more in-dependent.
Having this goal of in-dependence
before me, I did not
let stairways bother me. That
year, however, I realized that
climbing stairs did take away from
my independence to a degree.
Every time I climb stairs, I need a
friend to carry my walker up the
staircase.
I do use the elevator when it is
convenient, however, at times it is
very inconvenient because of its
location. I feel there is a need for
an additional elevator built in the
new science building—it would be
more accessible for elevator use.
There is also a problem outside
of the school building. Steps lead-ing
up to the building may dis-courage
any handicapped person
that is looking at the school for
the first time. All of the building
entrances have steps except a cou-ple
which are hidden from public
view.
In 1973, the Rehabilitation Act
passed a law requiring federally
funded colleges and universities to
create barrier-free buildings. Al-though
Bethel is not under federal
funding, I think we need to be
concerned about the physical bar-riers
that may prevent some in-dividual
from coming.
Inside the building, Bethel also
has barriers that may discourage
future, prospective students. For
example, there is a staircase lead-ing
up to the psychology depart-ment.
There is no other alternative
but to climb these stairs which I
must do in order to reach my class
three times a week. If I were a
psychology major, I sure would
obtain my daily exercise.
Also, a handicapped person, as
any other individual, should have
the freedom to get counseling as-sistance
from the psychologists
(not that they need extra counsel-ing
but should have the freedom
to obtain it).
Maybe the psychology depart-ment
could be moved to the third
or second floor and replaced by
administrative offices where stu-dents
are less likely to go for in-formation.
Another barrier is the drinking
fountains. These are not very ac-cessible
to a person who is in a
wheelchair. As a solution, Bethel
could put in paper cup dispensers
at a reasonable level for a sitting
person at each of the drinking
fountains.
There are similar problems with
phones. Phones are too high for a
person sitting in a wheel chair to
reach. Touchtone phones (for
those who find dials impossible to
manage) could be placed at a
lower level that could be reached
by a sitting person. This may cost
more but I think it would be worth
it to free a person from extra
limitations.
As I understand, a new science
building is planned to be added
soon. In this building, one could
include an elevator, some outside
ramps that are visible to the pub-lic,
and lower laboratory tables.
If new dorms are built in the fu-ture,
I think they should have ac-cessibk
entrances as well as
facilities built inside for the handi-capped.
There are only a couple of
places where a handicapped per-son
could live on the campus with-out
climbing some stairs.
In Science magazine,
December, 1976, it is pointed out
that facilities should be accessible
to the handicapped without segre-gating
them from the rest of the
student population.
For example, ramps should be
available at all entrances, if pos-sible.
The handicapped students
should not be segregated from the
other students in a separate hous-ing
complex.
As the article suggests, dial
phones could be replaced by touch
phones, and door knobs could be
replaced with levers to make open-ing
doors an easier task for some
people.
The article also pointed out that
handicapped students should not
have segregated provisions be-cause
this would take away their
individual choices. Furthermore,
a student who had to go to a spe-cial
place to obtain necessary
facilities may feel a lot of indig-nity.
I bring up this concern of physi-cal
barriers not because I have si-lently
fought the structure of this
school (I haven't), but I see these
physical barriers as a possible fac-tor
in deciding whether to attend
Bethel.
In creating awareness of this
concern, I hope some action will
be taken in order to give another
person with a physical limitation
the same great opportunity for
education that I have enjoyed at
Bethel.
Sincerely,
Julie Redenbaugh
Dear Student Body:
We, as your representatives,
would wholeheartedly like to
thank each one of you who re-sponded
to the student survey. In
this initial survey, we sought to
ask questions which we felt cov-ered
the concerns common to
most students.
The senate realizes many other
questions could be asked, but due
to time and space, they were left
out of the survey.
With your input, the student
senate will now start the process
of bringing about the changes that
you as a student body have com-municated
to us. Where the
change is not possible, informa-tion
will be provided to the stu-dent
body as to the action that was
taken.
Please feel free to interact
with senate on any issues that con-cern
you. The senate needs your
help to better the student environ-ment
at Bethel.
In His Service,
Bethel Student Senate
NOTE
Last week an inmate sent a letter to the editor, asking for
students to write him in prison. The letter is legitimate, and here is
the address. Sorry for the omission last time.
Gilbert O'Laughlin
Box B-38289
Florence, Arizona 85232
This , lamp from ancient Israel is one of many on • •• • • • • • • • display in the art department.
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letters
Mollenkott arguments unsound, authority given to males
Dear Editor,
Virginia Mollenkott said in
chapel that the Greek word posta-tis
in Romans 16:2 has the mean-ing
of "ruler," so that Phobe was
regarded by Paul as "the ruler of
many, even myself." Her defense
was that everywhere else this word
is used in the New Testament it
has this meaning. When I heard
this interpretation I was hard put
to imagine what the Apostle of
Christ could mean by calling any
one in the church his ruler.
So I checked out the concor-dance
and found that prostatis
does not occur anywhere else in
the New Testament (or O.T.). In
fact, I can find no usage of this
feminine noun in any other early
Christian or Jewish writing. But
from its use in pagan sources the
meaning seems to be "patroness."
We may surmise that Phoebe was,
therefore, a woman of some
means who perhaps protected and
supported Paul and others in
some ways. It is highly improbable
that she was a "ruler" over Paul.
Second, Mollenkott argued that
Junias in Romans 16:7 is a femin-ine
noun and that therefore a
woman could be an apostle since
Paul says of Adronicus and Junias
that they were "of note among the
apostles." This is possible since
Junias is a common feminine
name.
But it is not as certain as Mol-lenkott
implied because Junias
may be a shortened form of the
masculine Junianus. An analogy
in the N.T. would be the shor-tened
form Silas (Acts 15:22) from
Silvanus (2 Cor 1:19). The gram-mars
of Robertson and Blass-De-brunner
give many other exam-ples.
The upshot is that Andron-icus
and Junias might have been
husband and wife—apostles in the
broad sense of itinerant evangel-ists.
But they might be two men as
well. The evidence is inconclusive.
Third, Mollenkott and most
other Christian feminists stress
from Ephesians 5:21 that the
Christian ideal is mutual submis-sion.
There are two problems with
this.
One is that the Greek word for
submit (hupotassomai) seems only
to mean "submit to an
authority." In other words to ar-gue
that the word here means
"put another's interest ahead of
your own" would contradict nor-mal
usage. But when Paul says,
"Be subject to one another," do
not these last three words imply
reciprocity? They might. But there
is no grammatical necessity that
they imply this. One need only
consult the same phrase in Rev 6:4
to see that in the Greek idiom
"one another" (allelois) need only
mean that, in a group, various
people are doing something to
other people. One-for-one recip-rocity
cannot be inferred from the
phrase.
The other difficulty with the
feminist interpretation of mutual
submission is that even if Paul did
mean that in each relationship of
two people there should be reci-procal
submission, this by no
means eliminates God ordained
authority structures which, limit ,
the way some individuals should
be subject to others.
For example, it may be that par-ents
should submit themselves to
their children in the sense of put-ting
the child's interest first. But
this does not contradict or elimin-ate
the fact that children should
manifest their submission differ-ently
from the parents, namely in
obedience. This does not jeopar-dize
the mutuality of their servant-hood.
Rather it defines the form
that mutual servanthood should
take within the natural order of
creation - the family.
Similarly the feminist would be
unjustified in assuming that the
forms of submission which hus-band
and wife offer each other
should be identical. My own con-viction
is that Paul assigns a role
of authority to the husband which
he does not assign to the wife.
This is the point of Eph 5:22-33;
Col 3:18, 19; and I Pt 3:1-7. This
need not contradict mutual sub-mission,
because the husband is to
exercise his leadership for the sake
Lifestyle: the watchword at Be-thel.
What exactly is it? Why is it
that way? What is the student's
part in enforcement? Steve
Lovestrand analyzes these ques-tions
in a four-part series.
by Steve Lovestrand
second in a series
I've heard somebody criticize
Bethel's lifestyle this way: Sup-pose
we were to drop the lifestyle
policy during the school year—
how would the behavior of Bethel
people change between then and
the end of the year?
If, you say, it would change a
lot, then what's the point of hav-ing
a lifestyle that has no lasting
effect? Of if, you say, their behav-ior
really wouldn't change signifi-cantly,
then why have a lifestyle
that we don't seem to need?
Don't get excited—nobody's
going to experiment with the idea
any time soon. But the question is
worth considering: Why have a
. lifestyle, policy? More specifically,
of his wife and children, not for
his own self-exaltation.
Therefore, even if (which seems
unlikely) Paul commends here a
reciprocal submission, this does
not eliminate authority structures
at home and in the church and so
cannot be used as an argument
against the happy and mutually
fulfilling rhythm of male leader-ship
and female responsiveness.
Fourth, when Paul prohibits
women from holding an authori-tative
teaching office in the church
(I Timothy 2:12) most feminists
argue that this is not valid today
because it was based on a tempor-ary
ecclesiastical or cultural situa-tion.
But this is not Paul's basis.
He argues from the creation in
Genesis two and from the dyna-mics
of the Fall in Genesis three.
From those who still hold to the
truth of Paul's practical teaching I
have never heard a satisfactory ex-planation
of this fact.
And it should perhaps be stress-ed
here that Paul never argues for
female submission on the basis of
the curse of Gen. 3:16. When he
why does Bethel have this particu-lar
policy? Is it just a matter of
keeping up the traditions of Bethel
and the BGC? Is it to help insure
that we remain insulated, or even
isolated from the behavior and at-titudes
of the world? A way to
make people with problems hide
them? Maybe somebody was
bored one day, and made them
up. Or is the lifestyle policy a han-dy
measuring tape or scale to see
how good a Christian someone is?
Ten or fifteen years ago one of
the leading accusations would
have been that of "Conformity!"
and students especially would re-spond
with loud demonstrations
of injustice, sounding the battle
cry of "Freedom!"
Student unrest at Bethel was of
course nothing like Kent State,
but there was considerable discus-sion,
not just of the Vietnam
"war," but also of personal
rights, freedom of choice, and the
place of authority. So of course
lifestyle issues were also an open
topic for debate.
Evidently the students were
pressing for the rules to be spelled
out clearly and definitively, be-cause
the 1970-71 catalog was the
first to carry a lifestyle policy simi-lar
at all to our present one.
Before that? Fewer students,
more willingness to accept author-ity,
a different social milieu, per-haps
more homogeneity in student
lifestyles before Bethel, even more
peer pressure would all combine
to make lifestyle less of an issue.
But the lifestyle statement isn't
just a threatened administration's
attempts to crack down on some
defiant, belligerent rebels of the
sixties. Let's think for a minute
who's responsible for the lifestyle
policy.
Certainly the BGC, who owns
this place and pays a fourth of the
cost of keeping it going, has a
right to say something about it (it
does, so through the Board of Re-appeals
to the O.T. it is to the
events before the curse (I Cor
11:8, 12; 14:34; I Tim 2:13, 14).
Male leadership and female sub-mission
is not a distortion of
God's will in creation but an ex-pression
of it.
Fifth, when Paul says in Gal.
3:28 that "there is neither male
nor female" we may proceed in
two ways. We can let the rest of
Paul's teachings guide us in deter-mining
what ways sexuality does
not count. Or we can arbitrarily
absolutize this statement so that
even committed homosexuality is
condoned. Mollenkott seems to
take the latter approach.
I think it is more courteous to
Paul to let his other words set the
limits on Gal 3:28. If we do, there
is no reason to think that male lea-dership
and female submission
contradicts the fact that Christian
men and women are equally sons
of God (Gal 3:26) equally clothed
with Christ (3:27) and equally
heirs of the promise (3:29). The
fact that I Pt 3:1, 7 puts submis-sion
and equality of inheritance
gents). So do the faculty and ad-ministration,
who keep it running.
And we students should have a
voice, too. So if the lifestyle is,
and is the way it is, it is because
the (weighted) majority in those
three groups want it that way.
How about the function of the
lifestyle? If we look at the be-havior
of Bethel people as the best
indicator of what the lifestyle poli-cy
(regardless of what's printed)
together in the same context
shows that the two were not re-garded
as contradictory.
All I have tried to do in this let-ter
is to show that some of the
strongest arguments that Mollen-kott
and others have offered for
abandoning male headship are not
sound. For those who want a
broader treatment which arrives at
similar conclusions, see George
W. Knight, The New Testament
Teaching on the Role Relationship
of Men and Women (1977).
Finally, it may well be that my
understanding of the Bible is
strongly influenced by the home in
which I grew up and by the tre-mendous
happiness I enjoy now
with my wife and sons. So I am
open to correction. But let's re-member
that the pressures to in-terpret
sex roles in Scripture to
our own liking is just as strong
from the egalitarian mood of our
age as it is from hierarchical tra-dition.
John Piper
Biblical and Theological Studies
really is, either because we put a
premium on enforcement or be-cause
behavior is a consistent re-flection
of character, then by the
same token, we can look at what is
printed as descriptive of the char-acter
of those people who would
agree to follow it and subject
themselves to that enforcement.
So one of the reasons we have a
lifestyle policy is that students, es-see
page 4
Established lifestyle averts community conflict
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Two years ago, Dan Hogan was
a Bethel senior looking forward to
graduation with a social work ma-jor
and hoping to go on to semin-ary
to prepare for the ministry.
Today he is married and back at
Bethel working with the mainten-ance
department.
Hogan attended Bethel for five
years, taking a year off during
1975 to travel the country with the
evangelism corps, a group of 24
college students who trained
others in the church to share their
faith. After graduation, rather
than enter directly into seminary,
he worked construction in Sioux
Falls, S.D.
That next fall, shortly before
homecoming, Dan was in Chicago
and called his friend and, un-known
to him, future wife, Bev
Brown, to see if they might not
ride to Bethel together. She had
also attended Bethel and had
transferred after a year and a half
to Thorton in Chicago, majoring
in occupational therapy.
Somewhere between Chicago
and St. Paul, an old flame was
rekinkled. They had been friends
since childhood and dated once in
high school, but nothing came of
it. After that date, when Bev's
mother asked her if she thought
Dan would ask her out again. She
replied, "Oh no, but I'm sure
we'll get together sometime."
So now what are Dan and Bev
Hogan's plans? In considering his
basic desire to serve the Lord, his
interests and dreams, Dan decided
to enter camp maintenance where
he can use his skills in building, re-pairing
and keeping things clean.
He now works about 25 hours
with the Bethel maintenance de-partment
and drives a school bus
in the mornings and hopes to con-tinue
there until a good opportun-ity
comes up at a camp.
Dan thinks that it is important
to listen to personal dreams. "We
all struggle with God's call and we
don't all get called in the same
way—listen to your own interests
and desires and God-given talents
and abilities."
Dan is finding his call, a pipe
wrench in one hand, a Bible in the
other, keeping the bolts of the
world tight in more ways than
one.
tween people is to establish rules,
whether they be established proce-dures
(e.g, driving on the right),
moral codes (e.g., biblical princi-ples)
or agreement between people
(e.g, a contract). We have to have
at least some rules in order to get
along and work with each other.
In the process we establish a sort
of atmosphere that we can all be
comfortable with, for the most
part.
Let me confess that I am an
idealist. If I had my way, the only
rules we would have committed
ourselves to before coming into
this community would be Biblical
and academic ones. But I know
I'm an idealist.
And I'm here by choice, and so
is everyone else. So in that choice I
commit myself to accepting, at
least for the time being, the rules
others have chosen here.
That, I submit, is the essence of
community.
Hogan joins maintenance
as result of God's call
Lifestyle, from page 3
pecially before they choose to
come, know what to expect and
what is expected of them.
Another thing we have to do
when examining the reasons for
having this lifestyle is to look at it
in two parts. Most of us have no
problem with the Biblical injunc-tions:
by definitions we as Chris-tians
are committed to the exam-ple
and teachings of Christ. It's
the community expectations we
object to, if we object at all. Why
must we have standards set for us
in addition to what the Bible has
set? Is it the school's responsi-bility
or right to spell out for us
the straight and narrow in what
we call the "gray areas"?
We must realize what kind of
community we are. We come from
backgrounds that range broadly
across the spectrum from conser-vative
to liberal. When people of
different value systems come toge-ther,
some conflict is inevitable.
I have to consider the possibility
of the "weaker brother" who is
tempted to sin or is hurt or an-gered
by what another brother
does, especially if I am the one
who is tempted, hurt or angry.
I didn't realize just how possi-ble
that pain could be until just a
few days ago two Christian friends
of mine were hurt and furious at
the way they took something I
did. I still don't feel I did anything
wrong, but I learned to be more
concerned for others' values and
feelings.
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It doesn't take many visits to
the student activity center to real-ize
that soap operas are not just a
housewife favorite. Every week-day
a number of Bethel students
meander past the p.o.'s to take in
some television drama.
It seems that soap operas have
taken the brunt of much negative
criticism, but among the masses
that keep them on the air for
hours daily are the soap operas'
staunch defendants. From all
sides of the issues the Bethel stu-dents
speak:
"How often do you watch soap
operas?"
Bill Tulberg: "I don't."
Julie Stake: "Once in a while."
by Gloria Martin
Gerri Wessman, former dean of
women at Northwestern Col-lege,
has been appointed to fill the
newly created position of admini-strative
assistant to President
Lundquist.
Wessman came to Bethel last
Cindy Held: "Never."
Barb Kerssen: "Three times a
week, and more if possible."
Scott Feltman: "I don't make a
habit of it."
Jack Olson: "Three times a
week. Just one show—`All My
Children."'
(Incidentally, "All My Chil-dren"
is the current favorite in the
Student Activity Center.)
Graham Boyd: "I don't usual-ly.
This is my first time."
Patty King: "Daily. At least
one show, sometimes two."
"Why do you watch soap
operas?"
Julie: "I think they're funny."
Barb: "They're kind of funny,
and addicting too."
Jack: "Good question. To keep
my girlfriend informed—she's in
class now."
November as a part-time assis-tant.
Less than a month later she
began full-time at Bethel, contin-uing
on at Northwestern part-time.
Now she is working solely at
Bethel.
When President Lundquist first
inquired about her coming to Be-thel,
Wessman was hesitant be-cause
of her contentment where
she was. After much prayer and
consideration she felt the Lord
was directing her to come to Be-thel.
Wessman said, "I feel that
God lead me to Bethel and that
my mission is to serve Christ
here."
Wessman's administrative posi-tion
here at Bethel reaches out in
many different facets. She is re-sponsible
for assisting the presi-dent
in planning and administer-ing
the functions of the
president's office. She works
closely with the president, assist-ing
wherever she can be of help.
Among many things, she is in-
Graham: "I just wandered in
here."
Patty: "They're interesting."
"Why do you think soap operas
have become popular with the col-lege
crowd?"
Bill: "They show the real
world."
Barb: "Watching soap operas
becomes part of my routine with
the TV right here."
Scott: "College students have
more free time than lots of other
people."
Jack: "Many of the characters
are young, close to our stage in
life."
Graham: "You can forget your
own worries a little."
Patty: "Soap operas provide a
break in the day. They also let you
escape from the everyday world
and forget your own worries."
volved in writing the 'Vista,' as-sisting
in public relations ac-tivities,
and oftentimes speaking
at conferences and retreats. "The
position is both interesting and
challenging because I assist the
president in all areas," comment-ed
Wessman.
It is also a part of the job to be
liaison between the president's of-fice
and all campus student
groups. She loves working with
college students so much that be-fore
accepting the job at Bethel
she had to make sure that she
would be able to work directly
with the students.
Wessman first began working
with college students shortly after
the death of her husband. She at-tended
graduate school at Augus-tana
College in Sioux Falls, S.D.
She graduated in 1973, and in the
fall of that year she began at
Northwestern.
There is a Bible verse which
Wessman is encouraged by daily,
and which she uses as her theme.
She stated, "After my husband's
death, I turned to the Living Bible
he had given me. Found `my
verse' in Romans 5:2, 'And be-cause
of our Faith, He has
brought us into this place of high-est
privilege where we now stand,
and we confidently and joyfully
look forward to actually becom-ing
all that God has had in mind
for us to be."
I remember when I first came to Bethel. Boy what a treat: food cards,
Uncle Carl, Doc's corner, and of course, the Beef Board. Beef Board?
Why a Beef Board at a Christian College? I mean, what do Christians
have to complain about?
Well, it's been two or three years now, but as far as I can remember,
boys complained about girls, girls complained about boys, and both
complained about the food.
Now, obviously, I can do nothing about Bethel food, but maybe I can
suggest a few things that can be done about the battle of the sexes. But
first, allow me to digress again.
I remember how it was when I was in elementary school. The girls, as
much as we secretly liked them, were the enemy. They had fleas, and
there wasn't one self-respecting guy who would even go near them
without "Flea Powder" scrawled on his hand. Ah yes, elementary
school.
But of course we all grow up, don't we? I was still afraid of girls in
high school, but at least the "Flea Powder" incantation was no longer
necessary. Girls, terrifying though, they might be, were all right. That was
high school.
Then, there was my Early Christian period. I found myself in the
highly desirable position of being "brother" to a rather large number of
devout "sisters." This, I decided, was good. Women were my friends.
And then—the Sermons. Women, pastors and evangelists suggested,
were O.K., but "subject" to men. Paul said so, and they said so, and if
everybody said so, it must be true. Or it seemed that way at least.
Now I am in my "Mature" state of Chistian development. (A highly
arguable assertion, I know,.but let it go.) I view women from an entirely
different point of view. Women, I have discovered, are not "naturally"
inferior to me, as earlier pastors had implied. They are, for the most
part, competent, capable, and unwilling to be treated as less than equals.
Believing these things to be true, I still have to analyze why I tend to
dislike breast-beating feminists. I suppose it's because some have a
tendency to dislike the sex that I belong to. (Which is understandable,
perhaps, when consideration is paid to the amount of time my sex has
locked them into the "little women" cubbyhole.) I guess I dislike people
who don't like me.
This, however, is not a problem at Bethel. Feminists, here, are more
concerned with being who they are, rather than tearing down men.- This
is a great good, because often angry words and resentment tend to bring
about the opposite of one's true desires.
I realize that I have been rambling for longer than is excusable, so let
me leave you with a suggestion. Women and men of Bethel, you are
really on the same side. Created by one God, and justified by one
Christ, you have no grounds for apartheid on the basis of sex.
I would like to address my own sex, and call them to repentance for
our mutual attitudes toward women. Shame on us, guys; women are our
friends. Let's let them be who they are, and what they want to be. I'm
sure Jesus would have wanted it that way.
And now: women of Bethel, — remember that you are a creation of
God as individuals, not as a sex-role. Aspire to glorify God by your uni-queness,
not on the basis of being the most "subjectable" wife, if the
"least-unique" girlfriend. You have a glorious position in the Kingdom.
If God has given you leadership ability, use it. God does not waste
talents.
Bethel: the idea of a battle between the sexes is folly. We are a body.
Let's not treat each other as anything less than equals. Let us follow the
excellent analysis given to us by the folks at P.R. and show ourselves
and the greater Christian community that Bethel really and truly is peo-ple.
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Battle of sexes over;
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Page 6
Secular rock artistry of The Who
intrigues, unifies concert-goers
by Mark C. Anderson
On Friday, May 2, I had the ul-timate
in secular experiences. I
went to The Who's secular rock
and roll concert.
I was surrounded by secular
people who had all kinds of smok-ing
paraphernalia—and no Bibles.
I went to the concert because I am
a great admirer of The Who. I en-joy
their music and insights repre-senting
"my generation."
The Who proved to me on Fri-day
night that, after 15 years, they
have not lost their ability to play
good rock and roll in it's purest
form, and they have not lost the
talent of communicating through
their rock and roll.
The repertoire of the concert
was a well chosen anthology of
their most intriguing songs. They
opened with two early songs,
"Substitute" and "I Can't Ex-plain."
They captured the same
60's spirit and flavor with these
first two songs.
They went on to play their song
about teenage wasteland, "Baba
O'Reilly." Lead singer Roger Dal-trey
marched victoriously while
the band played this song of
youthful freedom and rebellion.
They continued to play many
classic favorites of their 15-year
career—"My Wife," "Who are
You?," "Behind Blue Eyes,"
"Pinball Wizard," "I Can See for
Miles," and others.
They also did an up-tempo ver-sion
of "My Generation" in
which Daltrey yelled • the familiar
lyrics, "Things they do look awful
c-c-c-cold—I hope I die before I
g-get old."
The concert kept building in its
intensity and climaxed when they
played parts from their rock opera
"Tommy." Pete Townshend daz-zled
the crowd with his virtuosity
in the guitar-centered instrumen-tal
"Sparks." Townshend's guitar
went through the various
phases—angry, sad, and joyful—
while the band kept the rhythm.
After the guitar drained the
crowd's emotions, there was a
short silence, followed by Roger
Daltrey's compassionate voice
singing, "See me, feel me, touch
me, heal me." Daltrey captured
the true emotion of the song and
sounded close to tears.
The band then went into the tri-umphant
and cathartic "Listening
to You" as spotlights were shining
on the crowd. The crowd reaction
was fascinating to watch. The
whole audience was on its feet in a
celebrative, "secular" unity.
After this highpoint in the con-cert,
the band played "Long Live
Rock"—an appropriate "amen"
to the previous songs.
The final song was the classic
"Won't Get Fooled Again," in
which there as a great explosion
on stage while Roger Daltrey did
his scream of suspended duration.
After a long wait the band came
out and encored with "Young
Man Blues" and a 60's medley.
The Who still use the effective
stage antics which characterize
their aggressive, exuberant rock
and roll. Townshend made some
incredible leaps into the air, danc-ed
across the stage, and ripped the
chords out of his guitar with his
circular strums.
Daltrey swung his mike into the
air, jogged and marched about the
stage, and sang with an astound-ing
emotional range. Townshend
and Daltrey still have their joyful,
playful, youthful, rebellious
spirits after 15 years.
John Entwhistle stood in the
background and dexteriously
played the powerful notes of his
bass. The missing element was
Keith Moon, who died in 1978.
Drummer Kenny Jones was an
adequate replacement, but there is
no one who could imitate Moon's
character or style of drumming.
There was also a multi-key-board
player and a brass section
to add some texture to the music.
The Who amazingly captured
every rock and roll emotion in
concert. Townshend's guitar and
Daltrey's voice gave a feeling of
relief through the expression of
frustration and aggression.
It was appropriate that they en-cored
with the song "Young Man
Blues" in which Daltrey scream-ed,
"a young man ain't got no-thing
in the world."
It is no wonder that people are
so attracted to The Who's rock
and roll—a person can have
nothing in the world, but still feel
triumphant while listening to The
Who express similar frustrations.
Unlike the dime-a-dozen party-rock
bands, The Who have real
depth in their music. They dis-played
the true artistry of their
rock on Friday night.
That was my secular experience.
It didn't give me a satanic, hedon-istic
outlook on life. It gave me a
memorable night of great rock
and roll.
Looking at the concert from a
Christian perspective (up to this
point this has been a secular re-view)
I am reminded that I too
have something to offer a young
man with nothing in the world.
by Shari Goddard
As each of us spends more and
more time within the Bethel Corn-munity,
we develop our special
likes to things around the campus:
our favorite painting, our favorite
chair, our favorite foods. The
following are recipes of a few
epicurean favorites that the Bethel
food service offers.
Special
A few years ago, Randy
(Stump) Fredin, a coffeeshop
student-employee, developed a
new menu item. The "Stump Spe-cial
, " later shortened to
"Special" has since won the
hearts of many Bethel students
and employees.
Hamburger mix:
1 lb ground beef
• C chopped onion
11/2 tsp Worchestershire sauce
11/2 tsp. vinegar
11/2 tsp. brown sugar
1 tsp. mustard
1-8oz can of tomato sauce
'A can water
Fry ground beef, drain, add
onion and cook until tender. Add
other ingredients and heat
through.
On one slice of bread, place let-tuce
and two slices of tomato.
Scoop on desired amount of mix
and place one slice of American
cheese on top of that. Finish with
another slice of bread. Often ea-ten
with a knife and fork.
Vegetable Beef Soup
Vegetable soup allows for a
great amount of creativity. Left-over
vegetables can be added and
new combinations tried to make
the soup a little different each
time it is made.
▪ C diced celery
• C diced onions
'A C diced carrots
• C shredded cabbage
'A C peas
• C lima beans
'A C barley (optional)
3 qts. beef stock
Prepare vegetables and add to
hot beef stock. Cook until veget-ables
are tender. Add barley (if
desired) and cook until tender.
Leftover vegetables and beef can
be added, heat through. Season to
taste.
East End Bars
Often called Shelly bars because
of their common association with
Shelly Nielsen (Clarion
columnist), these bars are tempt-ing
favorite of many students.
• C butter
• C sugar
• C cocoa
• tsp vanilla
1 egg
2 C graham cracker crumbs
1 C nuts
1 C coconut
Cream butter, sugar, cocoa,
vanilla and egg. Stir until thick.
Add graham cracker crumbs, nuts
and coconut. Mix and pat into
greased 9" x 9" pan. Bake 10 min.
only at 300° F. The mix may seem
soupy, but that is normal.
Icing:
1 C butter
3 tbsp. vanilla instant pudding
3 tbsp. milk
2 C powdered sugar
Combine butter, milk and pud-ding
mix. Beat well and add pow-dered
sugar. Spread on cooled
bars. Refrigerate about 20 min.
Melt 'A cup of chocolate chips
and spread on top of icing (not
too much, just enough for a mar-bled
effect).
Chapel Schedule
Monday, Sojourns
Tuesday, Honors Convo-cation
Chapel
Wednesday, Dr. George
Brushaber
Thursday, Sing and Share
Friday, Pastor Spickelmier
Food service reveals best recipes
The 22nd Sentate held its first
meeting April 15 with a general in-troduction
to the student govern-ment
process at Bethel. Of the 15
Senators elected this spring, 12
have no previous Senate ex-perience
at Bethel.
The Senate has taken action on
installing a Praise Board that will
go up next to the Beef Board. The
Student Survey was also put out,
with the results now being compil-ed.
Bills now before the Senate
relate to the airport shuttle ser-vice,
the idea of publishing a
handbook that rates teachers and
"MERP" is finally here girls.
By now, you should have gotten
your tickets for Saturday's activi-ties.
Friday will be the last day
we'll be selling tickets, and you
can't get them once you get there.
The bus will leave NC at 10:30
a.m. to go to Taylors Falls. If you
plan to ride the bus, you need to
sign up on the C.C. door by Frid-ay.
Your $8 tickets will include
three alpine slide rides at Wild
Mt., a boat excursion ride down
the St. Croix River, and canoe
rental for two hours. The buses
will plan on leaving Taylors Falls
about 5 p.m. Don't forget to pack
a special picnic for that special
person!
DON'T FORGET!!! There is a
John W. Ivance Company
1618 Pioneer Bldg.
224-7358
INSURANCE
John W. Ivance, Sr.
John W. Ivance, Jr.
John G. Chisholm
Russell K. Akre
Patrick J. Repp
Life--Auto--Home
Business
St. Paul. MN 55101
Golfers
Interested in participating in a resurrec-tion
of the traditional Clarion-Como
Study Day Golf Epic? Tournament to be
held Monday, May 19. Submit applica-tions
or indication of interest to PO 2381
This mundane eating locale will be transformed into a almost immediately.
"Terrace" room as part of MI-School Banquet's "Gone With
The Wind" theme.
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Rookie senators start job
In the continued effort to give
students the chance to make
their products, personals, and
other information known to
the Bethel community, the
Clarion accepts classified ads
to P.O. 2381 by Sunday before
publication. Pre-payment
preferred.
their classes according to student
opinion, and the idea of having
the students re-sign the lifestyle
statement each time they register.
Action will be taken on all of these
bills at the next Senate meeting,
May 13 at 6 p.m. in the Student
Activity Center Listening Room.
The Senate encourages students
to come to the Tuesday meetings
and have some input as to the ac-tion
taken on the bills now before
the Senate. If you are interested in
making Bethel a better school,
please help the Senate accomplish
this goal.
rollerskating party again on Fri-day
evening (or is it Saturday
morning?). Well, this party is for
an SMP benefit so the price will be
$1.75. Get out for some hot eight-wheel
action, and let's have a
great time! Buses will run as usual.
Next weekend, our last roller-skating
party will be on Friday
night. Then the highlight of the
year will take place on Saturday
evening, May 17, 1980. I'm refer-ring
to the "All-School
Banquet."
The banquet and program will
be held at school, and they'll be
better than ever. All Bethel stu-dents,
faculty, staff, and adminis-tration
receive the entire evening
free of charge. Spouses of full-time
faculty and staff are also ad-mitted
free. Anyone other than
those people just mentioned must
pay $7 for the evening.
Travel
A FEW RESERVATIONS
STILL AVAILABLE FOR
THE GREAT OBERAMMER-GAU
PASSION PLAY TOUR
Led by Dean Gordon Johnson
and Prof Bob Featherstone of
Bethel Seminary.
Starting this year, the Senate is
adding a Student Advisory Com-mittee
that will bring to Senate
new ideas that the students on the
committee feel are important.
These issues will deal with admis-sions
policies, food service, life-style
or any other issue the
students feel is important.
This committee will assist the
Senate in better serving the stu-dent
body. If you are interested in
this committee, please stop by the
Senate office for more informa-tion.
This year's Senate is looking
forward to a productive year, with
your help.
However, TAKE NOTICE!
Everyone must have a reservation
for a certain table in one of the
three dining rooms in order to be
admitted. No one will be admitted
without reservations. Also, your
reservation must be made by
Thursday, May 15.
You can make your reservation
at the C.C. office beginning Wed-nesday,
May 7, through Thurs-day,
May 15. At that time, you
must show a validated Bethel ID,
and you will choose which room
you would prefer to eat in, along
with which table you would prefer
to eat at. You will have your
choice of the "Tara" room (gym),
the "Riverboat" room (coffee-shop),
or the "Terrace" room
(cafeteria).
Our theme for the banquet this
year is "Gone With the Wind," so
the rooms will be decorated as
such. The menu will be the same
for each room: 8 oz. steak, baked
potato, tossed salad, mixed veget-ables,
dinner rolls, and dessert.
Prior to the banquet there will be
a punch reception in the courtyard
outside of the coffeeshop from 6-7
p.m.
Those eating in the gym will be-gin
being served at 6:30, with the
serving beginning at 7:00 in the
other two rooms. The banquet
will be followed by a very high-quality
program put together by
Jeff Miller, Deb Olson, and Lana
Weeks, beginning at 8:30 p.m. in
the gym.
This is a formal occasion where
the entire Bethel family gets toge-ther,
so it will be a really
"special" evening! Make your re-servations
right away. Have a
GREAT week.
Also going to Rome, Venice,
Geneva, Etc. July 27th to Aug.
12th. Phone Bob: Campus 6193
Home 633-6900.
Athlete Leslie Smith has a unique status as one of only two stu-dent
members of the MAIAW.
Woman serves committee,
interprets athletic rules
by Patty Sutton The MAIAW consists of
coaches, athletic directors and stu-
Leslie Smith is one of the two dents. The board is made up of 12
student representatives on the members.
Minnesota Association for the In-tercollegiate
Athletics for Women
(MAIAW) executive board.
She was elected at the sprilig
conference meeting last March to
take the postion of the previous
officer that had to leave.
The MAIAW is a division of the
AIAW and is responsible for the
interpretation of rules and policies
and the running of women's tour-naments.
Take date to MERP picnic,
all-school-at-school show
"One thing I like is that the
MAIAW encourages student par-ticipation,"
said Smith.
Next January the national con-ference
is in Detroit and Smith
hopes to attend.
She is responsible for attending
two to three board meetings next
year, voting on the board, and
helping to conduct the fall and
spring MAIAW meetings
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Bryan Galloway (left) and Paul Otto (center) make up half of Bethel's fine mile relay team
(Photo Dan Velie).
Royals, Tommies split pair
by Steve Erickson
Catcher Jay Tornquist
singled home Ron Kaihoi
with the winning run in the
bottom of the sixth inning,
helping Bethel to a
doubleheader split with St.
Thomas Tuesday.
The Royals, who won the
first game 5-4 after losing a
4-0 lead, were trounced in
the second game 21-3.
With two outs in the sixth
and the score tied 4-4,
Kaihoi singled and went to
second when the left-fielder
bobbled the ball. Rick
Bachofner hit a shot off the
third-baseman's chest, ad-vancing
Kaihoi to third
before Tornquist got the
game winner.
Pete Parker led off the
bottom of the first with a
homerun over the left-field
fence. In the second, Mitch
Duininck singled, stole se-cond,
went to third on a
ground out, and scored on a
sacrifice fly by Bachofner.
The lead quickly went to
4-0 when Dave Fauth
homered with Paul Lind-berg
on first in the third. It
was Fauth's fifth round-tripper
of the year.
Tom Weko, who gave up
only a pair of runs in each
of the fifth and sixth inn-ings,
went the full distance
for the win.
In the nightcap the Tom-mies
took an early 1-0 lead.
The Royals came right back
in their half of the first.
Parker singled, Lindberg,
perhaps Bethel's most
dangerous hitter, then walk-ed,
and Fauth singled up
the middle for one run. Jeff
Wilson knocked in another
run with a single, and
Duininck's sacrifice fly sent
home the final run for a 3-1
lead.
But from then on it was
all St. Thomas. Five runs
in the second and four more
in the third and the rout was
on.
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Velgersdyk qualifies
for national meet
68.38 in the 400-meter race. Sherri
Lindquist finished 6th in the
100-meter- dash.
The distance runners did well
despite the 85-90 degree heat.
Brenda Harris had a personal best
in the 1500-meter run with a 5:07.
Wendy Norberg and Ellie Abbott
radically bettered their times in
the 3,000-meter run with times of
11:06 and 11:08 respectively. Nor-berg
also took 5th in the
5,000-meter run. All three women
combined efforts with Theresa
Meredith for 5th place in the
3200-meter relay.
The sprint relays also looked
tough. Lynn Severson, Lindquist,
The Royals concluded the
season with a 9-9 record.
"We have a young team, and
there were a lot of inconsistencies
throughout the season," said La-
Rock, "but if we can keep the
team together for next year, we
should get much stronger."
Women's softball finishes at .500
by Wendy Norberg
Last weekend the women's
track team traveled north to
Moorhead to compete in the state
championship meet. Eighteen
schools participated with the re-sults
divided into two divisions.
Division II consisted of the six
state schools while Division III in-cluded
Bethel and 11 other private
colleges. Of these twelve schools
Bethel finished 5th after a long,
tough battle for third place be-tween
St. Thomas (80 pts.) Gusta-vus
(74 pts), and Bethel (72 pts.).
The outstanding performance
of the meet was turned in by Sara
by Carol Madison
The women's softball team won
just one game against two losses in
the state tournament to finish the
season at 9-9, but the highlight of
the tournament was the perfor-mance
of Tami Miller and Gail
Heinsch.
Miller, who averaged .636 for
the tournament, was selected to
the all-state team for her contri-butions
at third base. Miller has
played second base for two sea-sons,
but was moved to third in an
infield shake-up to compensate
for an injured first baseman.
Gail Heinsch played errorless
ball in right field, and also man-aged
to hit .555 for the tourna-ment.
Her efforts included .a
homerun in the first game.
The Royals entered the tourna-ment
seeded fourth, drew a bye in
the first round, and then lost their
first game to St. Benedict 10-8.
Five errors by Bethel contributed
to eight unearned runs for St.
Ben's, which was the difference in
the game.
The Royals defense suffered a
blow as first baseman Kim
Schmidt was kept out of the tour-nament
with a knee injury. She
was also leading the offense up to
that point with a .600 average.
Gail Heinsch and Becky Bruss
Barker, who is now the new state
champion in the discus with a
throw of 124' 8".
Barker deserves special recogni-tion
as the first woman in Bethel
history to ever place first in State
competition. She later took third
in the shot put with a throw of
38'.
Deb Sension jumped 5'2" in the
high jump, earning 2nd place in
that event. She took 5th in the ja-velin
and teammate Sheila Kroon
finished right behind her at 6th
place.
Jennifer Burgess excelled in the
hurdle taking third in two events
with a 16.27 in the 100-meter and
went 2-4.
Despite a slow start against St.
Theresa's in the second game, the
Royals came on strong in the fifth
and sixth innings to win 11-5. A
slower pitcher caused some over-anxiousness
at the plate, but the
Royals adjusted and came from
behind after the 4th inning.
Heinsch again led hitting by go-ing
3-4, and Julie Murphy and
Tami Miller each went 3-5. Mur-phy
had a homerun and three
RBI's.
Laura Kreutzfeldt pitched a
strong relief game and shut St.
Theresa's offense down.
The Royals lost a close final
game to St. Mary's on an un-earned
run in the bottom of the
fifth inning. With the game tied
4-4 in the fifth, an error scored
what proved to be the final and
winning run.
Bethel had only four hits in the
game, and were shut out after the
third by a relief pitcher that was
eventually named to the all-state
team.
"It was our best game of the
tournament, and we had good ag-gressive
hitting and base running,'
said Coach Marcia LaRock. "But
our inexperience hurt us."
Julie Stake had two RBI's on
one hit, and Miller went 2-3, in-cluding
a triple.
by Ellie Abbott
Jason Velgersdyk qualified for
nationals in the high jump and
lead the men's track team to a
third place team finish at Macal-ester,
Friday, May 2.
Ahead of the Royals were Ham-line
with 1061/2 points and Carle-ton
with 641/2 points. Bethel was
third with 56 points, and far be-hind
Bethel were Augsburg, Mac-alester
and St. Thomas.
There were a number of school
records broken by the Bethel
trackmen and seven personal bests
in addition to the records. Vel-gersdyk's
jump of 6'8" in the high
jump gave him a second place and
also qualified him for the national
meet.
Phil Asay placed second in the
110-meter high-hurdles. His time
of 14.9 was fast enough to break a
school record. Senior Jim Feleen
also smashed a school record,
placing sixth in the 3000-meter
Burgess and Meredith took 2nd in
the 800-meter medley relay. The
same four women got their best
time and took 4th in the 1600-me-ter
(mile) relay (4:09.8).
Severson, Burgess, Lindquist,
and Sension ran away with 2nd in
the 400-meter relay with a time of
50.90. Later, with a personal best
time of 26.61, Lynn Severson cap-tured
2nd in the 200-meter dash.
Bethel held third place over ri-vals
St. Thomas and Gustavus
throughout most of the meet, but
lack of team depth hurt the
11-member squad in the end.
Coach Shirley Dawson was
pleased with the team's efforts
and hopes to see more improve-ment
by the women this weekend.
In the last and biggest meet of
the season ten of the women have
qualified in one or more events for
the seven-State Region
Championships in Des Moines,
Iowa. The team hopes to success-fully
top off their excellent 1980
track season.
steeple chase with a time of
9:46.0. The previous record was
9:59.0 held by Jeff Larson. Paul
Otto placed second in the 400-me-ter
dash, breaking a school record
with a time of 48.0 seconds.
Three Bethel trackmen got a
personal best in the 800-meter
run. Bryan Galloway was clocked
at 1:57.4. Dan Hauser earned his
best time of 2:02.3 and John Bur-ton
was close behind Hauser with
a time of 2:03.7.
In other events Keith Johnson
got a personal best in the 100-me-ter
dash (10.9). Paul Rynders got
his best time of the season in the
400-meter intermediate hurdles
(57.6) and Andy Larson jumped
21'3" in the long jump. Freshman
Ross Allen got a personal best in
the 3000-meter steeple chase with a
time of 10:15'2.
Next weekend Bethel will travel
again to Macalester for the two
day Conference meet on Friday
and Saturday.
Dave Mitroff leads off in a re-cent
Royal game (Photo Dan
Velie).
SPORTS SHORT—Next
week's Clarion will contain
information on the new
football coach and the win-ners
of the third annual
Clarion Athlete of the Year
award.
Barker takes state discus championship